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  • This dissertation investigates:

    1. How urban design can be described as a collective cognitive activity in a complex living environment;
    2. How urban designers move across scales in their search for coherence;
    3. How urban designers, while moving across scales, can be subject to a variety of misconceptions and biases;
    4. How isovists and patterns can be used as design instruments to mitigate the negative effects of these misconceptions and biases;...