Ebook: Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation

This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out. It addresses both newcomers who wish to obtain more knowledge about this growing area of interest, as well as established researchers and practitioners who want to keep up to date. In terms of organization, the volume starts out with chapters looking at the domain at a wide-angle and then moves focus towards technical viewpoints and approaches.

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This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out. It addresses both newcomers who wish to obtain more knowledge about this growing area of interest, as well as established researchers and practitioners who want to keep up to date. In terms of organization, the volume starts out with chapters looking at the domain at a wide-angle and then moves focus towards technical viewpoints and approaches.

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This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out. It addresses both newcomers who wish to obtain more knowledge about this growing area of interest, as well as established researchers and practitioners who want to keep up to date. In terms of organization, the volume starts out with chapters looking at the domain at a wide-angle and then moves focus towards technical viewpoints and approaches.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Planning Environment for the Design of Future Cities....Pages 3-16
Calculating Cities....Pages 17-23
The City as a Socio-technical System: A Spatial Reformulation in the Light of the Levels Problem and the Parallel Problem....Pages 24-48
Technology-Augmented Changes in the Design and Delivery of the Built Environment....Pages 49-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
City Induction: A Model for Formulating, Generating, and Evaluating Urban Designs....Pages 73-98
Sortal Grammars for Urban Design: A Sortal Approach to Urban Data Modeling and Generation....Pages 99-116
Sort Machines....Pages 117-137
Modeling Water Use for Sustainable Urban Design....Pages 138-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Simulation Heuristics for Urban Design....Pages 159-180
Running Urban Microsimulations Consistently with Real-World Data....Pages 181-199
Urban Energy Flow Modelling: A Data-Aware Approach....Pages 200-220
Interactive Large-Scale Crowd Simulation....Pages 221-235
An Information Theoretical Approach to Crowd Simulation....Pages 236-261
Integrating Urban Simulation and Visualization....Pages 262-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Visualization and Decision Support Tools in Urban Planning....Pages 279-298
Spatiotemporal Visualisation: A Survey and Outlook....Pages 299-317
Multi-touch Wall Displays for Informational and Interactive Collaborative Space....Pages 318-338
Testing Guide Signs’ Visibility for Pedestrians in Motion by an Immersive Visual Simulation System....Pages 339-346
Back Matter....Pages -

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This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out. It addresses both newcomers who wish to obtain more knowledge about this growing area of interest, as well as established researchers and practitioners who want to keep up to date. In terms of organization, the volume starts out with chapters looking at the domain at a wide-angle and then moves focus towards technical viewpoints and approaches.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Planning Environment for the Design of Future Cities....Pages 3-16
Calculating Cities....Pages 17-23
The City as a Socio-technical System: A Spatial Reformulation in the Light of the Levels Problem and the Parallel Problem....Pages 24-48
Technology-Augmented Changes in the Design and Delivery of the Built Environment....Pages 49-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
City Induction: A Model for Formulating, Generating, and Evaluating Urban Designs....Pages 73-98
Sortal Grammars for Urban Design: A Sortal Approach to Urban Data Modeling and Generation....Pages 99-116
Sort Machines....Pages 117-137
Modeling Water Use for Sustainable Urban Design....Pages 138-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Simulation Heuristics for Urban Design....Pages 159-180
Running Urban Microsimulations Consistently with Real-World Data....Pages 181-199
Urban Energy Flow Modelling: A Data-Aware Approach....Pages 200-220
Interactive Large-Scale Crowd Simulation....Pages 221-235
An Information Theoretical Approach to Crowd Simulation....Pages 236-261
Integrating Urban Simulation and Visualization....Pages 262-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Visualization and Decision Support Tools in Urban Planning....Pages 279-298
Spatiotemporal Visualisation: A Survey and Outlook....Pages 299-317
Multi-touch Wall Displays for Informational and Interactive Collaborative Space....Pages 318-338
Testing Guide Signs’ Visibility for Pedestrians in Motion by an Immersive Visual Simulation System....Pages 339-346
Back Matter....Pages -
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