Urban design workshops: A planning tool

Systems Analysis as a Tool for Urban Planning

New ways are becoming available for analyzing our social systems. These permit the design of revised policies to improve the behavior of the systems within which we live. Industrial dynamics relates system structure to behavior. Industrial dynamics belongs to the same general subject area as feedback systems, servomechanisms theory, and cybernetics. Industrial dynamics is the study of how the f...

B-hive: a Cell Planning Tool for Urban Wireless Networks

The paper presents a demand-based engineering method for designing urban wireless networks. We present an integrated approach to include the effects of both tele-traffic and radio signal coverage for cellular network planning. The novelty of our scheme is an application of clustering technique to determine the cell and base-station locations. We model the cell planning problem as a clustering p...

Multiple-Case Study of Landscape Visualizations as a Tool in Transdisciplinary Planning Workshops

Visual Communication in Urban Planning and Urban Design

This Case Study documents the current status of visual communication in urban design and planning. Visual communication is examined through discussion of standalone and network media, specifically concentrating on visualisation on the World Wide Web (WWW). First, we examine the use of Solid and Geometric Modelling for visualising urban planning and urban design. This report documents and compar...

Planning for Bushfire Resilient Urban Design

Resilience is often understood as the ability to “bounce back” from adversity, and has been used for some time in ecological and psychological settings. However, applying the concept to human settlements presents many challenges, even when considering a single risk source, such as bushfires. Fundamentally, the concept of resilience in its ecological meaning requires that a resilient species be ...