Look at the book Virtual Geography, edited by Peter Fisher and Dave Unwin
(taylor and francis, 2001), and also R. Brail and D. Klosterman (eds)
Planning Support Systems (esri press) which are full of digital media on
the urban environment.
Mike Batty
At 11:22 18/06/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am a new member on this list (eventhough I have to admit that I
>follow the contributions for several moths).Therefore I should first
>introduce myself. My name is Jakub Vorel and I am an architect and now PhD
>student at the faculty of architecture in Prague as well. I am interested
>in new forms of visual representation of urban environment in media. With
>the new form I mean the interactive representation that would consequently
>unable a participative character of urban planning, representation that
>would facilitate user with more immersive and descriptive environment.
>
>Now I am doing an overview of different existing projects but I have found
>just a few projects, that would facilitate the public participation by an
>interactive interface and that would at least partially reflect on real
>urban environment. The critical element is the interface between user in
>real environment and virtual space. I have found several fantastic
>"artistic" projects, with the elaborated, inclussive, interactive
>interface, but whose representation do not refer to any phenomenon in real
>environment. On the other hand there are several models, whose interface
>is similar to that of LEGO combination box. They enable easy way to
>participate, but the limit to their practical application defficiency is
>that they apriori reduce the complexity of problem.
>
>I have just one question and one quest. I would be very pleased if you
>could further discuss these problems. I am aware of the fact that this
>maillist has little different subject. If this is problem, just to forward
>this mail to whomever, who could be interested and I will continue
>bilateral contact. My only question so far is, whether you know any study
>or practical project that would be related to this kind of problem.
>
>Thank you very much
>Jakub Vorel
>
>Here is an example of one interesting project:
><http://www.heimat.de/modell-obrien/index2.html>http://www.heimat.de/modell-obrien/index2.html
>and some papers:
>Dodge M. & Jiang B. 1997, "Geographical Information Systems for Urban
>Design : Providing new tools and digital data for urban designers"
>Dodge M., Doyle S., Smith A., & Fleetwood S., 1998, "Towards the Virtual
>City: VR & Internet GIS for Urban Planning",
>
>Ing. Arch. Jakub Vorel
>Faculty of Architecture, CVUT Praha
>Thakurova 7
>Praha 6, 166 34
>Czech Republic
>tel. (+420) 2 24354896
><http://www.utpcr.cz>www.utpcr.cz
>
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