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All research and scholarship begins with a question, with the definition of a problem or of a problematic situation (e.g., Northrop 1947). This can only happen within a given domain–the body of data and its interconnections that is to be studied. Domains must, therefore, be defined.
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Rapoport, A. (1990). History of What?. In: History and Precedent in Environmental Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0571-2_2
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