Urban Design and City Microclimates

Promoting city center parking qualities using urban design guidelines

Quality is the most important consequence of an urban design project, and its promotion is the final duty of an urban designer. So "urban design guidelines" which use environmental improvement factors in their structure, have an effective role in promoting urban space quality. "Urban design guidelines" are the most important instruments in urban designers' authority, to reflect and appear im...

Urban infoscapes: new tools to inform city design and planning

3D City Models Based Spatial Analysis to Urban Design

Urban design is a subject that is concerned with the shape, the surface and its physical arrangement of all kinds of urban elements. Although urban design is a practice process needs much detailed and multi-dimensional description, however the urban designer can only analyse urban space with script and imagination in the past, and only the urban design guideline and some drawing picture were ca...

Virtual City Design Based on Urban Image Theory

This paper aims to evaluate what effect applying residents’ urban image to virtual city design (a real time virtual model of an actual city) has on wayfinding performance during ‘flying-based’ navigation mode. Two experiments were conducted to compare two virtual city designs using the virtual model of Tel Aviv city. One design included highlighted urban elements from the residents’ urban image...

Diabetes City: How Urban Game Design Strategies Can Help Diabetics

Computer Games are about to leave their “electronic shells” and enter the city. So-called Serious Pervasive Games (SPGs) [1] allow for hybrid – simultaneously physical and virtual experiences, applying technologies of ubiquitous computing, communication and “intelligent” interfaces. They begin to focus on non-entertaining purposes. The following article a) presents game design strategies as a m...