In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

The idea of open source, stemming from software development is being applied in various fields, including urbanism, as the concept Open Source Urbanism (OSU). This approach promotes a transparent process, where methodology used and developed final outcomes are for others to use, modify, adjust even profit while also sharing their process results openly. In this paper, principles criteria source...

10 BUILT ENVIRONMENT VOL 43 NO 1 Despite these apparent benefits, scholars note that globalization may also present certain risks to industry.1 The opening of international trade and communications threatens copyrighted content, trade secrets, and other proprietary information; even more troublesome and less obvious, there is a danger that as companies shift production abroad, their capacity to...

This work is part of an ongoing project, which focuses on the application of AR in Architecture and Urbanism and heritage studies seek to develop interactive multimedia platform and contents about historic buildings known as "Quarteirão dos Trapiches" on Laranjeiras, city of Sergipe State on Brazil. This project explores the potential of mobile applications to disseminate the architectural heri...