ABSTRACT
The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applications explores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive screens, locative media and evolving computation software have impacted the ways in which people experience, explore, interact with and create these complex spaces.
This book draws together a broad range of interdisciplinary researchers in areas such as architecture, urban design, spatial planning, geoinformation science, computer science and psychology to introduce the theories, models, opportunities and uncertainties involved in the interplay between virtual and physical spaces. Using a wide range of international contributors, from the UK, USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Netherlands and Japan, it provides a framework for assessing how new technology alters our perception of physical space.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|82 pages
Perspectives in Planning and Urban Design
chapter 1|29 pages
New Ways of Conditioning Space and Place in Dynamic and Transformative Environments
chapter 2|14 pages
Realizing Sensory Urban Environments
chapter 4|22 pages
ICT, Open Data and the Internet of Things
part Two|96 pages
Help Planners Plan
chapter 7|15 pages
Space Syntax
chapter 8|19 pages
From Real to Virtual and Back
chapter 9|17 pages
Planning Support Models in an Era of Shrinking Population
part Three|92 pages
Get the Public on Board!