Urban Analysis

Negli anni recenti, beneficiando del finanziamento del Fondo Sociale Europeo
su due progetti di ricerca1, una decina di ricercatori ha studiato come
favorire l’azione congiunta di rigenerazione urbana, riattivazione economica
e sviluppo locale in uno specifico ambito urbano-industriale: il territorio
tra Mestre e Marghera.
Riconoscendo l’importanza di una traiettoria di rigenerazione urbana
(Ostanel, 2017) e provando a incrociarla con la definizione di spazi
del lavoro innovativi, inclusivi e la sperimentazione di nuovi modelli di
business, i due progetti di ricerca si sono interrogati sul ruolo potenziale
di un mix di nuove attività manifatturiere ad alto contenuto digitale, di industrie
creative multidisciplinari che coniugando il sapere tecnologico con
la creatività potessero facilitare lo sviluppo di ecosistemi locali favorevoli
alla messa in rete del sistema delle imprese con i luoghi della produzione
artistica, facendo leva su processi locali di trasformazione degli spazi.
Come da tempo ci suggerisce chi studia il mondo del lavoro, se già
a partire dai prossimi anni più della metà delle figure professionali conosciute
e dei tipi di lavoro che pratichiamo cesseranno di esistere, è evidente
che rigenerare gli spazi del lavoro costringe a porsi alcune domande. Chi
saranno i nuovi abitanti di questi pezzi di città e quali saranno le nuove
figure professionali? Quali esigenze esprimeranno ed entro quali processi?
In quali spazi e con quali temporalità?

Cities generate data in increasing speed, volume and variety which is more easily accessed and processed by the advance of technology every day. Consequently, the potential for this data to feedback into the city to improve living conditions and efficiency of utilizing resources grows. Departing from this potential, this paper presents a study that proposes methods to collect and visualize urban data with the aim of supporting urban design decisions. We employed web scraping techniques to collect a variety of publicly available data within the Kadıköy municipal boundaries of Istanbul and utilized a visual programming software to map and visualize this information. Through this method and superposition of our resulting maps, we visually communicate urban conditions including demographic and economic trends based on online real estate listings as well as spatial distribution and accessibility of public and commercial resources. We propose that this method and resulting visualizations present valuable potential in supporting urban design decision-making processes.

"Na PARTE II da DEFINIÇÃO DA FORMA URBANA NO PLANEAMENTO descrevemos um exercício de análise do tecido urbano através da qual se pretende, a partir da caracterização física da proposta do Plano Urbanístico, deduzir a ideia de cidade que lhe está subjacente e, consequentemente, prever as características gerais e mais significativas dos outros elementos do mesmo sistema: actividades, incluindo a circulação de pessoas e bens, formas de apropriação e comportamentos da população, ambiente urbano e ainda aspectos relacionados com a gestão da apropriação, conservação e renovação do tecido.

Cities generate data in increasing speed, volume and variety which is more easily accessed and processed by the advance of technology every day. Consequently, the potential for this data to feedback into the city to improve living conditions and efficiency of utilizing resources grows. Departing from this potential, this paper presents a study that proposes methods to collect and visualize urban data with the aim of supporting urban design decisions. We employed web scraping techniques to collect a variety of publicly available data within the Kadıköy municipal boundaries of Istanbul and utilized a visual programming software to map and visualize this information. Through this method and superposition of our resulting maps, we visually communicate urban conditions including demographic and economic trends based on online real estate listings as well as spatial distribution and accessibility of public and commercial resources. We propose that this method and resulting visualizations present valuable potential in supporting urban design decision-making processes.

RESUMO O presente artigo tem por objetivo comparar diferentes métodos de abordagem da paisagem sob a perspectiva de um palimpsesto tais como a ​ Historical Landscape Characterization-HLC, a ​ Historic Area Assessment-HAA e a Morfologia Urbana, em especial a Escola Inglesa. Essas abordagens de estudo e interpretação da paisagem partem do seu entendimento como um construto da intrínseca relação entre o homem e o seu meio ao longo do tempo. Essa interação deixa marcas de suas sucessivas épocas, que podem ser desvendadas através de ferramentas e métodos específicos. A tradição do estudo da geografia na Alemanha promoveu a análise da paisagem urbana por meio de sua divisão tripartite-desenvolvida por M.R.G. Conzen, geógrafo formado pela Universidade de Berlim e radicado no Reino Unido. Essa abordagem consiste na análise do plano urbano, do tecido urbano e do padrão de uso e ocupação do solo e das edificações em períodos morfológicos distintos. Dessa maneira, a análise da paisagem compreende a descrição dos elementos concebidos por ações humanas buscando suas origens. O método de análise proposto por Conzen abarca tanto a forma quanto a paisagem de assentamentos urbanos por uma perspectiva retrospectiva assim como as metodologias e instrumentos utilizados atualmente pelo ​ English Heritage Trust​ , órgão responsável pela proteção e administração do patrimônio material da Inglaterra. Essas abordagens se tornaram cada vez mais importantes para o entendimento e gestão da paisagem, pois vão além dos aspectos físicos da forma, comuns nos planejamentos, podendo auxiliar na atribuição de valores e significância. Por meio das mesmas é possível entender como a paisagem se modificou ao longo do tempo, perceber as pressões causadas por diferentes atores, e identificar tendências tornando-se um importante instrumental na definição de diretrizes, investimentos e criação de mecanismos que contribuam para a sua evolução harmônica e equilibrada. Através da comparação entre as diferentes abordagens, será possível identificar suas semelhanças e divergências e assim definir aquela que mais se aplica em cada caso, em cada território.

The article aims at exploring the literature on town centre delimitation
methods over the last sixty years. Specifically, the first section explores the content of the term town centre, while the second one proposes an organisation of town centre delimitation research in three main periods. The third section comprises the main corpus of the article, as several town centre delimitation methodologies of the last sixty years are presented and discussed. For their presentation, a three tiered analysis is introduced. In the first stage the decisions of researchers regarding centrality estimators are discussed, in the second stage the study focuses on the choices of the spatial units, in which the chosen variables will be studied, and in the third stage the study discusses the methods that are used to characterise each of the studied spatial units as central versus non-central. Based on the analysis, the article concludes that town centre delimitation is an issue which transcends various scientific disciplines and that each of these disciplines comprehends the centre of a town in a unique way. Thus, future methods of town centre delimitation should take into account the choices made in each of the three stages presented above, and should also link the above choices to the objectives and the theoretical context of the study.

Space syntax works with the comprehensive concept of "space", either as built form or as "open space", which occurs inside and between built structures. The space syntax methodology addresses the relationship between physical elements of space and its social activity and the pattern of utilization.

Though sustainability is not a new concept at all, still there's no common definition of it. However, it's generally accepted that sustainable development is the one that ensure a good balance between social, economic and environmental components and qualities of actual society without compromising the capacity of future generations to succeed. To determine if a city is or not sustainable, we must consider many indicators, being transportation one of the most important ones. It is a widely accepted view that public transport is a naturally 'sustainable' form of transport compared to other modes mainly because it competes with the private car and it is the private car that generates significant economic, environmental and social problems in developing and developed cities. Based on an extensive literature review, this paper aims to provide a better understanding of 'sustainable transportation' concept and how it contributes to making Melbourne one of the most liveable cities in the world.

This paper presents itself as a study on the rationship between the form of the
city, the Human Scale and the rolls of Urbanism and Urban Planning in the
transformation of this rapport.
Consequently, it presents an overview on the theory regarding the historical
evolution of the city and the relation of such an entity with its dwellers, with a contrast
between the forms of land use of the past and the present ones and all the reasons that
lay behind such a contrast and have stimulated such an evolution, be those, theoretical,
social, economical or political; always trying to relate these quite distant visions of urban
morphology with the more local perspective of the human being’s appropriation and
comprehension of the built environment.
The Human Scale is the main focus of the paper and, has such, it adopts a stance
that intends to understand the city space from the human point of view, which is then
chosen to be materialized in the study of the perceptive qualities of the built
environment, already detailed in the literature, that even though may lead into a more
subjective analysis of the space, have also got the particular advantage of having an
almost direct connection to the nature of human perception.
The effort culminates into a model of analysis that relates the perception of the
built environment, form the point of view of the human in the public space, through a set
of studied parameters, in contrast with the application of the instruments of Urban
Planning and urban interventions. The model is then applied to a group of streets in the
Lisbon’s municipality, with the objective of demonstrating the advantages of its practical
application.

Bu dersin amacı, kent planlamanın temel kavramlarının tanıtılması, kentsel mekanı anlamanın yollarıyla tanışılması ve kentsel ölçekte bir tasarım için gerekli altyapının verilmesidir. Dersin İçeriği Kentsel tasarımın tanımı, Kentsel tasarım kuram ve kavramları, Kentsel mekanın çözümlenmesi, Kentsel mekan değerlendirmesi ve öneri geliştirme, Kentsel planlama kavramları, Kentin gelişme aksları ve merkezleri, Kentsel yerleşmeler, Kentsel ulaşım, Farklı kentsel yaklaşımlar, Kentsel mekan tasarımında güncel kavramlar, örneklerle tarihte ve günümüzde kent, çevre ve tasarım. Dersin Öğrenme Çıktıları Kent planlama disiplini hakkında bilgilenme, plan proje kademelenmesini kavrama Kentsel tasarımın şehir dokusuyla etkileşimi ve kentsel tasarım mekanizmaları hakkında bilgi edinme Kentlerin sosyal-ekonomik-fiziksel analiz yöntemlerinin öğrenilmesi Dağıtım Sistemi Dersler sınıfta ve uygulama yapılacak alanda işlenecektir. Dersle ilgili doküman ve bilgilere https://kenseltasarimvesehir.wordpress.com/ adresinden ulaşılacaktır. Öğrencilerin blog sayfasını düzenli olarak takip etme sorumlulukları bulunmaktadır. Ders İletişim ve Paylaşım Ortamı * Sınıfta * Eposta * Web sitesi * Öğrenci koordinatörü aracılığıyla (Dersin bir öğrenci koordinatörü bulunacaktır. Koordinatör öğretim üyesi tarafından seçilecektir) Geribildirimler * Uygulama çalışmalarının derste değerlendirilmesi ve geliştirilmesi * Ara sınav sonuçlarının açıklanması Öğretim Yaklaşımı Derste, durumlu öğrenme (situated learning) ve işbirliğine dayalı öğrenme (cooperative learning) yaklaşımları benimsenecek ve uygulanacaktır.

It describes a method for reading the image of an Urban Area that allows starting its knowledge with the aim of carrying out its overall assessment and criticism, the diagnosis of problems and opportunities that it presents and preparing proposals for intervention which achieve its physical rehabilitation and socio-economic development and the community’s cultural activity territorialised therein.
This method develops the initial step of a methodology for planning the rehabilitation of urban areas. That methodology is described in the already published e-book “Reabilitação Urbana -Volume I - Conceitos Gerais e Metodologia de Planeamento” by the same author.

This document, as an introduction to a future Master Thesis, tries to demonstrate that Urban Analysis, along with a typo-morphological analysis (a method used commonly by architects and urbanists), could compensate the lack of global studies concerning ancient egyptian cities.

In a challenging world of exponentially increasing numbers, relationships, and complexities, the GIS-based technologies make possible the gathering, compilation, analysis, as well as representation of very large amounts of hypothetical and/or real-world data. The computational and representational capabilities offered by these technologies promise the ability to deal effectively with even greater complexities and challenges of maintaining sustainable urban patterns in the future. This study offers an introductory outline of prominent sustainability issues as they relate to the planning and design of urban areas, where growth and sprawl bring other major concerns. Due to their unprecedented computational and representational capabilities computers, programs, digital satellite imagery, remote sensing and numerous other GIS-based technologies are regularly employed in many processes supporting such urban planning and design processes. The GIS applications in sprawling urban areas typically involve tracking land uses, monitoring the specific changes in urban population, densities, construction, housing, roads, as well as services. The GIS-based technologies, tools, and methodologies reviewed in this study are particularly chosen because of their significance in measuring, monitoring, modeling, and analyzing urban sprawl. This study finds that some of the most common methodologies include the use of software such as ERDAS (Leica) and ArcGIS (ESRI), as well as data retrieved from sources such as Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+ and IRS LISS-III.

Bu ders, bir yapılı çevreyi ya da mekânı, öznel ve nesnel açılardan değerlendirirken, mekân değerlendirmenin fiziksel, sosyal ve psikolojik yönlerini irdelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Kavramlar Mimarlıkta Çevresel Değerlendirme Araştırma ödevlerinin geliştirilmesi 6. hafta 21 mart Kavramlar Mimarlıkta Çevresel Değerlendirme Araştırma ödevlerinin geliştirilmesi 7. hafta 28 mart Kavramlar Mimarlıkta Çevresel Değerlendirme Araştırma ödevlerinin geliştirilmesi 8. hafta 04 nis VİZE (Tarih değişebilir) 9. hafta 11 nis Vize Sonrası Değerlendirmeler 10. hafta 18 nis Bileşenler Mimarlıkta Çevresel Değerlendirme Araştırma ödevlerinin geliştirilmesi 11. hafta 25 nis Bileşenler Mimarlıkta Çevresel Değerlendirme Araştırma Araştırma ödevlerinin geliştirilmesi 12. hafta 02 may Bileşenler Mimarlıkta Çevresel Değerlendirme Araştırma ödevlerinin geliştirilmesi 13. hafta 09 may Bileşenler Mimarlıkta Çevresel Değerlendirme Araştırma ödevlerinin geliştirilmesi 14. hafta 16 may Sunumlar 15. hafta

Beirut has a long-standing history of being a multipurpose hub in the Middle East. The area has witnessed a multitude of morphological transitions with the most recent being the post civil war reconstruction of the central district by a joint-stock company named Solidere. This dissertation aims to investigate the spatial logic and centrality of Beirut focusing on the case of BCD and stemming from the notion that centrality is a process and not a state (Hillier, 1999). It aims at questioning BCD’s ability/inability in structuring a globally and locally functional centre by testing the hypothesis that the transformation of the city after the civil war has weakened the original centre and pushed urban activities to sub-centres. Using movement as a key factor at all stages, Space Syntax is adopted as an analytical and quantitative methodology that helps provide an evidence-based understanding of how spatial patterns are formed by overlapping movement based analysis with urban data such as land use, social and traffic data. The analysis includes a historical overview of Beirut in transition to understand the factors that have formed and impacted the spatiality of BCD. Contemporary analysis of the city is to follow, with a comparison study between BCD and organically grown and functioning sub-centres such as Hamra, Gemmayze, Verdun & Sodeco. This has proven necessary in understanding the differences between grid properties and how they account for the degree of centrality and attracting land uses. Conclusions and findings from the space syntax analysis demonstrate that the transformation of the city after the civil war had weakened the centrality of BCD making it less integrated with the rest of the urban system. This transformation in the spatial configuration had also contributed to the relocation of urban activities from BCD to the sub-centres, which have emerged as focal points for their local communities at times of physical segregation during the civil war. Recommendations for improving the centrality of BCD are also included in a complementary section.

A solid knowledge of computational methods is an increasingly important key competence for future architects or urban planners. In this course you will learn how to analyze and generate spatial configurations with advanced computational methods.In a series of theory lectures we explore how designing and planning of cities could become evidence based by using scientific methods. Various exercises will provide training for your skills in working with state-of-the-art yet office proven design tools (Depthmap, Ecotect, and Rhino/Grasshopper). In an integral project work, you will deepen your knowledge in spatial analysis and simulation methods such as Space Syntax using Depthmap software and environmental analysis with the program Ecotect. In addition you will acquire skills for using analysis methods for generative design processes. Therefore we introduce you into the parametric design software Grasshopper for Rhino 3D. Based on the methods introduced during the semester, you will lear...

Promoting the use of solar energy in urban environments requires knowing the geographical distribution and characteristics of the best places to implement solar systems. In this context, buildings can be used to locally generate electricity. Based on remote sensing data, the city's surface can be modeled and the solar income at each location can be estimated. The present study assesses photovoltaic (PV) potential of residential buildings. Two variables are modeled, the income of solar energy at the roof tops, and the population at the building level. The model is tested in Lisbon, Portugal, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based solar models and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data. The total PV potential is assessed and compared with the local electricity demand. The results constitute an initial assessment of the city's solar potential that can be used to support management decisions regarding investments in solar systems.

La città contemporanea evidenzia che i processi globali di sviluppo generano maggiori ineguaglianze rispetto al precedente ciclo di urbanizzazione, essendo tali ineguaglianze ben visibili a livello spaziale. Questi fenomeni, a partire dagli anni '40, erano den documentati attraverso il concetto di metropoli, che esprimeva istanze di sviluppo economico, disegno urbano, integrazione sociale. Questa metropoli non c'è più: al suo posto, sembra esservi una postmetropolis, uno spazio senza limiti e con modelli d'ordine estremamente diversificati, soggetto a continui processi di place-assembling and place-disassembling, con una progressiva perdita di significato di termini quali città, campagna, suburbio. A partire da questo quadro, si avanzano alcune ipotesi: il Veneto non è più conoscibile a partire dai suoi confini amministrativi, sono più rilevanti e visibili le similarità con l'esterno; non ci sono mai state metropoli ma armature urbane diffuse di medie e piccole città, struttura che ha acquisito rilevanza a partire dalla fine degli anni '60, in concomitanza con modello di sviluppo della piccola impresa; questo modello di sviluppo, appare da tempo non più in azione e immerso in uno spazio di relazioni, che sembrano definire spazi in parte autonomi, e compresenza di forme, modelli, pratiche di organizzazione economica-sociale anche tra loro antitetici, ma anche forti conflittualità. Questi caratteri eterotopici sembrano connotare il 'Veneto' non-metropolitano ma forse post-metropolitano.

Desde meados do século XX a preocupação com a vida nas ruas e a qualidade dos espaços urbanos vem sendo tratada com bastante interesse pelos arquitetos e urbanistas. Mais recentemente essas preocupações ganharam um maior impulso, inclusive na tentativa de definir um termo que melhor as representasse. Urbanidade, significando gentileza espacial do lugar com as pessoas, seria o termo mais próximo até então para descrever estes estudos. Neste contexto, as regiões centrais, pela confluência de diferentes pessoas nas mais diversas horas do dia são, potencialmente, locais onde o a urbanidade pode aparecer da maneira mais plena. Dentre os espaços possíveis para a análise se escolheu o enfoque nas praças, locais carregados de relações interpessoais em sua essência e definição. No caso aqui proposto, a Praça Eufrásio Correia foi o local selecionado por apresentar uma urbanidade complexa que: se reflete na insegurança do local; se vincula em sua origem ao desenvolvimento da cidade; e é resultante de transformações radicais que ocorreram no seu entorno ao longo do tempo. O trabalho se originou na pesquisa de mestrado tratando do tema sobre Parques de Porto Alegre e da tese de doutorado em desenvolvimento acerca da urbanidade nos eixos estruturais de Curitiba, ambas orientadas pelo prof. Dr. Douglas Aguiar na UFRGS, e, além disso, utiliza-se também, da ainda recente experiência das pesquisas de iniciação científica realizadas desde 2012 na Universidade Positivo acerca do tema. O levantamento do local, a observação do comportamento das pessoas, e o mapeamento das análises acompanhadas de registros fotográficos, materializam a argumentação sobre a relação entre espaço urbano e a urbanidade existente na Praça Eufrásio Correia.

Since the mid-twentieth century concern with street life and the quality of urban spaces has been treated with great interest by architects and urban planners. More recently these concerns have returned with greater force, including the attempt to define a term that best represented. Urbanity, courtesy spatial meaning of the place with people, would be the closest term until then to describe these studies. In this context, the central regions, because confluence of different people in various hours of the day are, potentially, where the urbanity may appear as more fully.
Among the possible fields for the analysis is the approach chosen in the square local laden interpersonal relationships in its essence and definition. In the case presented here, the Eufrásio Correia Square was selected to present a complex urbanity that place: insecurity is reflected in the site; binds its origin in the development of the city; and is the result of radical changes that occurred in their environment over time. The work originated in the master's research dealing with the theme parks on the
Porto Alegre and developing doctoral thesis about urbanity in structural axes of Curitiba, both oriented by prof. Dr. Douglas Aguiar at UFRGS, and furthermore, it is also used, even the recent experience of the research of scientific research carried out since 2012 in Positivo University on the topic. The site survey, observation of people's behavior, and mapping analyzes accompanied by photographic records substantiating the argument about the relationship between urban space and the existing urbanity in the Square Eufrásio Correia.

Space Syntax and the theory of natural movement demonstrated that spatial morphology is a primary factor infuencing movement. This paper investigates to what extent spatial morphology at diferent scales (node, community and global network) infuences the use of public space by micromobility. An axial map and corresponding network for Lisbon’s walkable and open public space, and data from e-scooters parking
locations, is used as case study. Relevant metrics and their correlations (intelligibility, accessibility, permeability and local dimension) for the quantitative characterization of spatial morphology properties are described and computed for Lisbon’s axial map. Communities are identifed based on the network topological structure in order to
investigate how these properties are afected at diferent scales in the case study. The resulting axial line clustering is compared via the variation of information metric with the clustering obtained from e-scooters’ proximity. The results obtained enable to conclude that the space syntax properties are scale dependent in Lisbon’s pedestrian network. On the other hand both the correlation between these properties, the number of scooters and the variation of information between clusters indicate that the spatial morphology is not the only factor infuencing micromobility. Through the comparative analysis between the main properties of the public space network of Lisbon and
data collected from e-scooters locations in a timeframe, centrality becomes a dynamic concept, relying not only on the static topological properties of the urban network, but also on other quantitative and qualitative factors, since the fows’ operating on the network will operate several transformations on the spatial network properties through
time, uncovering spatiotemporal dynamics

Promoting the use of solar energy in urban environments requires knowing the geographical distribution
and characteristics of the best places to implement solar systems. In this context, buildings can be used to
locally generate electricity. Based on remote sensing data, the city’s surface can be modeled and the solar
income at each location can be estimated. The present study assesses photovoltaic (PV) potential of
residential buildings. Two variables are modeled, the income of solar energy at the roof tops, and the
population at the building level. The model is tested in Lisbon, Portugal, using Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) based solar models and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data. The total PV potential is
assessed and compared with the local electricity demand. The results constitute an initial assessment of
the city’s solar potential that can be used to support management decisions regarding investments in
solar systems.

The United Nations Paris agreement of 2015 highlighted the need for urban planning to prevent and contain urban sprawl so as to reduce trip lengths through an efficient distribution of agglomerations and a well-balanced urban pattern distribution, all while considering travel behavior and accessibility to green areas, services, and facilities on different temporal scales. For the Vienna-Bratislava metropolitan region, our integrated modeling approach uses a combination of multifractal spatial modeling along with a space syntax perspective. Multifractal strategies are intrinsically multiscalar and adhere to five planning principles: hierarchical (polycentric) urban development to manage urban sprawl; sustainable transit-oriented development; locally well-balanced urban pattern and functions distribution to enhance vital urban systems, local centers, and neighborhoods; penetration of green areas into built-up areas; and the preservation of large interconnected networks of green areas to conserve biodiversity. Adding space syntax modeling to a multifractal strategy integrates how space relates to functional patterns based on centrality, thus applying a socio-spatial perspective. In this paper, we used the following workflow for an integrated modeling approach: (1) Space syntax to identify the urban systems’ hierarchy and so determine a spatial strategy regionally; (2) Fractalopolis to create a multifractal development plan for potential urbanization; and (3) Space syntax to design a strategic urban master plan for locating new housing and facilities vis-à-vis socioeconomic factors.

The most significant concern of this work is the dialectical relationship between the pedestrian and the motor vehicle and its spatial projections, considering the urban space quality in the sense of its cultural and communicational essences, and search for the possibilities of the ‘pedestrian platform net idea’ in the case of Meşrutiyet Street which has a unique situation considering the pedestrian and vehicle relation. This relation finds its physical form in the five overpasses, constructed by the Greater Municipality of Ankara to organize the pedestrian and vehicle traffic of Meşrutiyet Street. The lack of main determinants of urban design qualities, such as continuity of social life, in Meşrutiyet case is the starting point of that thesis and it questions their existence, design qualities and search for the possibility of another approach to the problem.

La tesi, finalizzata alla redazione di un progetto urbano, per un nuovo insediamento integrato di riconnessione della struttura urbana dell’area settentrionale di Napoli e di riuso delle aree delle caserme di Secondigliano, individua dei principi generali e dei criteri progettuali per la qualità dell’ambiente urbano, riprendendo e mettendo a sistema le ricerche sulla forma urbana di Kevin Lynch, gli studi sul funzionamento reale della città di Jane Jacobs e la progettazione bioclimatica applicata alla morfologia degli insediamenti umani.

Propone quindi, nella congiuntura storica attuale di crisi delle competenze disciplinari e della loro capacità di dare risposte alle questioni complesse della città contemporanea, di riportare al centro della pratica progettuale l’analisi morfologica e percettiva e la ricerca dei principi per la qualità della città fisica, come ambito d’intervento proprio dell’Architettura, e aspetto fondamentale per la rigenerazione urbana.
Sperimenta infine, in un ambito urbano complesso, un progetto urbano come caso studio per una prima applicazione della sintesi metodologica proposta.
INFORAV, Roma, 2018, ISBN 9788887096439

The focus of the paper is on the relationship between conservation and spatial planning in mining areas, where visual characters and underground activities shape the territory. The research about the evolution of mining landscapes enables to recognize the value of the architectonic and environmental heritage in the world of today and tomorrow. Non-destructive technologies can play a key role in order to develop correct planning actions, both horizontally within local organizations and also within the different tiers of government. The district of Bacu Abis (Carbonia) in south-western Sardinia (Italy) has been investigated in order to find ancient-modern connections between the mining exploitation and its urban development across the last two centuries. The analysis has been focused on the possibility of integrating historical information with results of field surveys in order to support spatial planning strategies.

Integrated urban-transport planning should exploit not only conventional methodologies, which are crucial for identifying the already established local centres of the city (places with people), but also multi-dimensional methodologies for identifying the vibrant places of the city that can facilitate the centrality needs of citizens and provide access to urban vitality, functionality, and liveability (places for people). In this article, we conceptualise and quantitatively define these two types of centres, as Active Centres (AC) and Human-oriented Centres (HoC), respectively. Accordingly, two distinct methodological tools (available as python scripts and ArcGIS toolboxes in a public repository) are introduced for identifying Active (where-it-is) and Human-oriented (where-it-should be) centres. Active Centres are identified based on the functional density of the study area, while Human-oriented centres are found based on the density and diversity of typological criteria, considered essential for liveable centres. To this end, the aim of this work is two-fold. On the one hand, to formulate a comprehensive methodology for identifying different types of centrality and on the other to develop a GIS-based analytical toolkit which can assist evidence-based planning and support decision making towards sustainable urban form, active mobility, and human-scale public places. The proposed methodology and tools have been implemented and evaluated while effectively identifying the Active and Human-oriented Centres of an Athenian suburb, Greece.

This article looks at how urbanization and mapping are umbilically linked in the case of Indian urban developments.  From an anthropological and urban design viewpoint, it seeks to analyze how current gaps and restrictions in information – both newly emerging and preexisting – have invited for a range of strategies that are affecting the shape and outcome of urbanization in South India.

The article focusses on two different sites in Chennai’s fast-transforming landscape: kuppam settlements on Chennai’s urbanized coastline, and the township of Sriperumbudur some 50 kilometers further inland from Chennai’s Bengal Bay coast. Both locations mark out a ‘frontier’ of data and urbanization; in two different vignettes – one written and one cartographic – the article will show that restrictions to spatial data and the way in which access to such data is governed, play an important role in how that frontier is taking shape on an everyday level, both politically and physically. The article then concludes by looking at the implications that spatial data practices like these may have on the designerly use of mapping.

This paper discusses the results of an extended pedestrian movement project carried out in the center of Tallinn, Estonia. Having gone through several rounds of in situ studies and software prototyping, we present a synthetic method for modelling data of urban qualities as perceived by individual pedestrians. The proposed method includes capturing the walkability of city elements as a landscape of explicit values. This landscape is turned into proximity fields that in turn are fed into an agent-based model for simulating the route selection mechanism of individual pedestrians. The described model is used to demonstrate how each simulated pedestrian is influenced by the perceived qualities of urban environment. Based on our observations and computational modelling experiments, we argue that pedestrian traffic in the city can be successfully simulated with agent-based models. Furthermore, such simulation models, when finely calibrated in the field observations, allow urban planners, city authorities and decision makers to evaluate the impact of future urban design scenarios to pedestrian flows in the city.