ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates aspects of the ground and the understanding of its visual forms, patterns and processes as perceived and interpreted from the ground within the contemporary city. With sophisticated software and digital tools, the chapter digitally dissect the ground and formulate an understanding of its visual forms, patterns, and processes, as perceived and interpreted from within the contemporary city. The principles of landscape ecology explain that the spatial forms, patterns, and arrangements found on a site in the present are a direct result of processes of the past. Landscapes are therefore considered to be the result of the processes acting upon them. Using various software programs that include ESRI ArcGIS, ArcMap, CityEngine, AutoCAD, 3DS MAX, and Rhino the chapter begins to test, assess and discover new ground' information through advanced mapping. Over the past ten years, the power of mapping has transformed the way landscape architects see' and assess' landscapes.
