The valence of any visual paradigm and its accompanying technologies is subject to the contingencies of political regimes and cultural shifts. The instigation, implementation and even reconfiguring of any associated technological system effects a translation and adjustment to the structure and use of these supporting mechanisms that both re-defines the relationship between object and viewer and...

The historic cities of Brazil, despite its colonial structure, don't fail to go through transformations that affect contemporary cities, which is the main source of problems, leading to new approaches to urban issues such as mobility and accessibility. The uncontrolled growth of tourism in the historic cities can be considered as a big problem, because at the same time, they have committed to t...

Over the past two decades, space syntax has been extensively researched with a considerable amount of empirical case studies (Hillier and Hanson 1984, Hillier 1996). It has been found that space syntax can be a valuable tool for the prediction of people’s movement in urban environments. Basic to this finding is the relationship between human spatial behaviour and urban morphological structure, ...

Land use in a city has a unique structure, mostly due to the interactions between its spatial configuration and functions, developing into a patchwork of functional regions of various forms. Land price can be seen as one of the indices reflecting these advancements in spatial structure and land use. Through an analysis of the influences of spatial configuration and land use on the formation of ...

This article is based on a study of the morphological changes of Dhaka City, the capital of Bangladesh. The main objective of the research is to study the transformation of urban morphology in Dhaka City from 1947 to 2007. Three sample wards (18, 19 and 72) of Dhaka City Corporation are strategically selected as the study areas. Ward 72 has an indigenous type of organic settlement, whereas ward...

The research question is: “How to develop and apply acoustic artefacts and design methodologies for improving soundscapes in urban outdoor spaces?” In the project, this research question is limited to one specific type of urban outdoor space – city-park – and to two types of acoustic design artefacts. These are: I. Dynamic promotion of qualitative site specific sounds (e.g., the overall site sp...

Current collaborative mapping projects using locative media technologies have often overlooked the conventions of the base map as a site for reinvention. Although these projects are ambitious in their aim to propose alternative organizations of urban space through the way it is digitally mapped, they remain bounded by datasets that reinforce a Cartesian and static notion of urban space. This pa...