LANDSCAPE VISUALIZATION OF EDO CITY

Visualizing the Landscape of Old-time Tokyo (edo City)

Historical maps are precious materials, which show various spatial distribution of land use, streets and so on of the historical importance at the time the maps were produced. They may be a dependable source of information regarding concepts of city planning of the past. In analysis of historical maps, the most practical method is to compare them with the present ones, for instance, by overlayi...

the visualization of landscape in urbanism in france (1960-1970)

the present research with historical and epistemological dimensions, firstly studies the perception of urban landscape and its position in environmental interventions and also as a tool for analyzing the city during three temporal periods from 1960 till 1980; then by surveying the works in the fields of photography and cinema, studies the position of artistic visualization in urban landscape. t...

Investigating the Effect of Tall Buildings on Tehran City Landscape

Visualization of Unbuilt Buildings in Their Landscape

Computer modelling can provide better information on building projects presented in two dimensional drawings but never built. A cemetery project in Denmark was formed as a solid model in its sloping landscape using Softimage. Boolean operations were used to position walls at a given height above the terrain. More accurate still and video images were made and compared with original sketches.

Landscape Sustainability in a Sonoran Desert City

The objective of this paper is to discuss concepts of landscape sustainability in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Phoenix is situated in the greater Salt River Valley of the lower Sonoran Desert in the southwest United States. In this paper I use the ecological frameworks of ecosystem services and resiliency as a metric for understanding landscape sustainability. An assessment of landscape susta...