CItyMaker presents a method and a set of tools to generate alternative solutions for an urban
context. The method proposes the use of a combined set of design patterns encoding typical …

Regarding laypeople's active participation with artefacts in the early stage of urban design,
there is a certain difference between conventional urban design process and participatory …

Modeling cities, and urban spaces in general, is a daring task for computer graphics,
computer vision, and visualization. Understanding, describing, and modeling the geometry …

This paper presents an urban analysis work flow using a Rhinoceros/Grasshopper massing
tool. The tool utilizes terrain elevation models as part of the design process to subdivide …

In urban planning, a common unit of measure for housing density is the number of
households per hectare. However, the actual size of the physical space occupied by a …

The article presents a graph-based spatial analysis toolset (“decoding spaces” components)
which we have recently developed as an extension of the visual scripting language …

By taking advantage of computer's processing power, an unlimited number of variations and
parameters in both spatial and environmental can be provided while following the same set …

O termo 'morfologia'foi inicialmente proposto, na viragem do século XVIII para o século XIX,
por Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), o famoso escritor e pensador alemão que …

Collaborative urban design faces three inherent dilemmas of limitations to time and
resources, of barriers to language and communication between professionals and …

Urban plans are difficult to comprehensively analyze quantitatively because they lack
sufficiently detailed information. They tend to emphasize land-use, possibly suggesting …