It is shown that certain weak-base structures on a topological space give a $D$-space. This solves the question by A.V. Arhangel’skii of when quotient images of metric spaces are $D$-spaces. A related result about symmetrizable spaces also answers a question of Arhangel’skii. Theorem.Any symmetrizable space $X$ is a $D$-space $($hereditarily$)$. Hence, quotient mappings, with compact fibers, from metric spaces have a $D$-space image. What about quotient $s$-mappings? Arhangel’skii and Buzyakova have shown that...

The main results of this paper are that (1) a space $X$ is $g$-developable if and only if it is a weak-open $\pi$ image of a metric space, one consequence of the result being the correction of an error in the paper of Z. Li and S. Lin; (2) characterizations of weak-open compact images of metric spaces, which is another answer to a question in in the paper of Y. Ikeda, C. liu and Y. Tanaka.

The following two theorems give the flavour of what will be proved. Theorem. Let Y be a complete metric space. Then the families of first Baire class functions and of first Borel class functions from [0,1] to Y coincide if and only if Y is connected and locally connected.Theorem. Let Y be a separable metric space. Then the families of second Baire class functions and of second Borel class functions from [0,1] to Y coincide if and only if for all finite sequences $U_1,...,U_q$ of nonempty open subsets of Y there...