In this sketch we present an interactive real-time city generation system. The aim of such a system is to apply procedural techniques to rapidly generate detailed city models suitable for use in graphics applications. Most commonly, the underlying road network for the city is generated first and is used as a basis for positioning buildings and other features. Existing work includes CityEngine [...

Cities stand at the confluence of two global grand challenges—urbanization and climate change. Smart city initiatives around the global seek to leverage information technology to preserve and improve quality of urban life in face of these challenges. Given its vast experience with socio-technical systems, the IS discipline can assume a leading role on this path towards a more sustainable way of...

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 ...

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China; Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Dept of Pharmacology, College of Basic Medicine, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Dept of Physiology & Biophysics, Univ...

This study looks at perceptions of safety and danger regarding crime in Medellín, Colombia. I used two different datasets to look at this issue in both the specific situations that incite fear of crime and in the broader context of perceived safety and danger across the city as a whole. The first dataset comes from 42 interviews that I conducted with university students in May of 2009. The inte...

We have performed city-verification of videos based on the videos' audio and metadata, using videos from the MediaEval Placing Task's video set, which contain consumerproduced videos “from-the-wild.” Eighteen cities were used as targets, for which acoustic and language models were trained, and against which test videos were scored. We have obtained the first known results for the city verificat...

the main goal of this article is to reflect upon the relationship between creativity and urban transformation. it stems from the assumption that creativity has a paradoxical nature as it is simultaneously used for the production of the neoliberal city and by those seeking to challenge it and build alternative urban realities. first, we put forth a critical review of the creative city narrative,...