Fractional Configurational Analysis And a solution to the Manhattan problem

Abstract

Configurational analysis has been a very robust and successful tool to the understanding how space and occupation interact. There has been little work to date that tries to refine the core procedure of configuration to see if it is possible to improve on current correlations or remedy problems. This paper attempts to show that such an exploration is potentially rewarding by identifying a new method of fractional configurational analysis. One variant of this fractional configuration is explored which takes angle into account. This new fractional configuration appears to result it a reduction of the centralising effects common to large infinite radius axial-line maps. Future extensions of this work are then discussed.