Centrality of landscape, in territorial planning, has been influencing for years, the testing of innovative analytical techniques aimed to gather peculiarities of urban and suburban context. The advent of Spatial Information System created the possibility to produce more detailed studies analyzing a lot of information dealing with territorial phenomena of crucial importance in spatial planning....

The managed evolution of the application landscape is commonly regarded a focal point of enterprise architecture (EA) management. Therein, aspects of future planning and historization apply, for which no generally accepted information model yet exists. This paper addresses this challenge by identifying requirements regarding an information model for temporal application landscape management fro...

In spite of the widespread use of the Internet, its potential for facilitating public involvement in urban planning projects has not yet been exploited. In this paper, the possibilities and limitations of integrating GIS, CG and the WWW for facilitating the public involvement in urban landscape evaluation are discussed. It is proposed that off-the-shelf 2D GIS and 3D CAD software can be efficie...

Every landscape has its own potential, which has to be deter�ined in case of any kind of spatial planning �eant to be environ�entally friendly. �nowing the potential is also i�portant during the evaluation of the effective or opti�al land use. �ny other way, planning and research will not produce realistic results. Nu�erous �ethods and tools can be applied for the evaluation of landscape struct...

urban design and landscape architecture are considered as modern art (knowledge) which are developed through integration of various art and science fields of studies. formal emergence of urban design in 60s and landscape design is occurred at the beginning of 20th century. the success of these two fields is because of their attention to environmental qualities upgrade in public and open spac...

The paper introduces the landscape assessment approach for the post-mining landscapes in the Estonian oil shale open-cast mines. Typologies of mining landscapes are based on landscape pattern, features and functions predetermined by mining technologies. The open-cast mines which have been predominantly subjected to monofunctional reforestation should direct to diversification of landscape and i...