The globalisation of the economy and the availability of Internet technology have had a profound impact on thinking about the future of cities and regions. On the one hand there is talk about the “end of geography,” of the placeless “digital city,” on the other of a “renaissance of regional economies” and a “new logic of agglomeration.” The relatively unfavourable view of the future of the city...

For example, because of the demographic change, fast pace technological advance, and changing citizen habits (e.g. in buying behavior), cities face fundamental challenges lack orientation approaching their (digital) transformation. Especially rural areas struggle this situation which makes it necessary to reconsider predominant structures city management. The use scenario management can support...

A place cannot exist if it has not been imagined, perceived, as Alasdair Gray famously stated. Scottish Science Fiction goes a step further by emphasizing the need only to recognise and represent places, but also recreate re-imagine them in its possible futures. To (re-)imagine Scotland places means envision potential spaces. Ken MacLeod is one of figures who successfully managed set on map. Hi...

The recent Bubble and its crash caused severe difficult problems to many local municipalities. Govern ments of suburban areas were required to remake their future planning and want to know the basic future trends of the local economies. The purpose of this study is to construct a model of a suburban city and use it to forecast basic tendencies of its local economy. The results will be useful fo...

abstract the aim of this article is to study the function of khoy as a medium sized city in the spatial development of the azerbaijan gharbi province. the research method is descriptive – analytical. the quantative models have been used to study the place of the city and it's hinterland. the population models indicate that the khoy city has the capacity to attract emigrants. if it is not c...

The Scalable City: aesthetic and conceptual goals. The Scalable City[1] is a series of artworks by Sheldon Brown and his Experimental Game Lab. Members of this lab have included Alex Dragelescu, Mike Caloud, Joey Hammer, Erik Hill, Carl Burton, Kristen Kho, Kwangyoon Lee, Daniel Tracy and William Huber. The artworks of The Scalable City consist of prints on paper and canvas, computer animated v...

Digital city construction brings many conveniences for people all over the world at present and in the future. Grid platform is a kind of better platform which integrates existing resources to share. This paper combines WebGIS technology with grid technology. It briefly puts forward the key technologies to make people understand concerned technology used in the system, and gives system framewor...

This paper introduces a VR city model developed for driving simulation. The project is a part of interdisciplinary multi-year academic research grant. First, the outline of the research is explained. The process of VR city modeling is then introduced. The modeling process of creating road and intersection networks and traffic flow is explained. The system integration with a PC, modeling and VR ...