VISUALISING THE CITY
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Visualising the City
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Visualising the city discloses the fundamental relation to the city as a possible object of study. In order to know the city, to understand it, and…
Stråk: Visualising an urban design concept – Reflections on verbal and visual approaches in research
– Karin Grundstrom
In the Swedish metropolitan regions, the word stråk has been incorporated into urban design and planning practice as an approach to (re)-connect th…
Seeing the city
with Nausicaa Pezzoni, on mapping perceptions of European cities
There is an ethical reason for this kind of participatory process. It is the opportunity to listen to participants’ point of view with the intention of building a level of equality between the expert and the disorientated gaze…
Lighting master plan: The night time face of Timisoara city
– Adela Petra Popa
Creating an adequate nocturnal environment means the reactivation of a lost collective memory, placing an importance on light in our lives, that may connect people despite their age, nationality or social status…
Playful poly-culture: An “ecosophic” park in south west Attica
– Stavros Mouzakitis
The general goal of this competition was the transformation of the area into an extensive metropolitan green park, able to become an intensely active part of the city’s public/common space…
HYPER TOKYO
– Diego Iglesias Gómez and Cristóbal Baños Hernández
A city that forces its inhabitants to live in continuous movement through complex temporal dynamics which rely on a succession of urban interiors, the infrastructure for nomadic lifestyles…
A palimpsest of topographies: A comparative analysis of five urban sections
– Cristiano Lippa and Fabiano Micocci
Urban societies are increasingly complex global entities. According to Henri Lefebvre, such complexification can be roughly defined in spatial term…
Poli-Plex-Icon: A tool for city image visualization in the age of complexity
– Efrossyni Tsakiri
By analogy with Calvino’s layered city, the starting point of the urban visualization in Poli-Plex-Icon are various descriptions of the city (scientific and pre-scientific, literary, historical, personal, urban, encyclopedic, etc). All of them form the city text…
Understanding urban density: How a bespoke densification model can unlock London’s future growth
– Yorgos Garofalakis, Alexander Alexiou and Daphne Delfaki
Treated not as an enabler of monolithic high-rises but as a tool for bespoke, balanced and safe placemaking…
Turning into guirilandia: Experiencing gentrification in Valencia, Spain
– Jonna Tolonen
It is the sixth consecutive day that I am photographing here. After so many long hours of shooting, the neighbourhood finally starts to feel famili…