This paper discusses a model for the virtual reconstruction of the historic garden of Villa lo Zerbino in Genoa. We describe the process that starts from a specific knowledge (based on documents, drawings and maps) and leads to a 3d model focusing on the vegetation elements. This representation allows addressing issues peculiar to the reconstruction of historic gardens, such as the analysis of ...

This paper discusses some of the major problems that have made it difficult to acquire and manage spatial information in the periurban areas of Botswana. The main problems include the separate historic development of urban and peri-urban settlements; contrasts in land tenure; and the acquisition and organization of data, and management of information on peri-urban areas along sectoral lines. In...

The article discusses the post-socialist developments of urban public space in St. Petersburg, Russia. The city with a historic center protected by the UNESCO World Heritage status in combination with the Soviet legacy of lack of public participation is facing the problem of public space development. There are two controversial concepts of urban space represented in the public discourse that ar...

Tourism is rapidly developing as a profitable and clean industry in the world. Today, tourists consider urban areas as tourist attractions since, in addition to the body which has its own charm,every space is dominated by an identity. In this descriptive, comparative study, the criteria determining the urban space identity are attempted to be specified through documentary studies. Then, 105 que...