ABSTRACT
Many methods employ environmental quality indices to measure levels of unemployment, aggregations of income and education or information about living standards but say nothing of use about spatial planning or objectives. Physical planning methodologies need to advance beyond identifying goals solely through intuition, and should provide an impartial and rational outcome. The methodology presented in this chapter is an adaptation of an environmental assessment method developed by Mark Sondheim (1978) into a design and planning tool with the emphasis on psycho-social aspects of urban living, or the wellbeing of the urban dweller. At the heart of the adapted Sondheim matrix methodology is the process of transforming the spatial performance goals (SPGs) into urban design and planning primers (PPs). The final data capture of such visioning workshops requires a systematic method to process the resulting priorities of the end-users, graphically co-ordinated with parameters from an urban design and planning perspective.
