Structured architecture would improve the systems quality by establishing discipline, but does not account of their evolution. We need to go beyond by discovering and using the hidden laws of urbanism that are intimately tied to autonomy, adaptation and evolution notions.

Sustainability now influences government policy in the UK, Australia and USA and planning policy currently advocates high density, mixed-use residential developments in ‘walkable’, permeable neighbourhoods, close to public transport, employment and amenities. This clearly demonstrates the growing popularity, influence and application of New Urbanist ideas. This article reviews the criminologica...

A Geographical Information System (GIS) is used to retrieve and explore the spatial properties of the visual structure inherent in space. The first section of the article aims to gather, compare and contrast existing approaches used to study visual space and found in disciplines such as landscape architecture, urbanism, geography and landscape archaeology. The concept of a visualscape is introd...

Nowadays several areas of application need a precise 3D cartographic model, specially in the urban domain: telecommunications, urbanism, tourism and other ludicrous applications. The analysis of aerial stereoscopic photos provides a fast method to obtain a faithful relief of the observed scene, including its superstructures. This work presents the Navegador3D developed by NPDI/UFMG, ETIS/ENSEA ...

Georg Simmel famously argued that the sensory onslaught of urban environment forces people to reduce world calculable quantities over colorful qualities and adopt a blasé attitude muted emotions. Today’s digitally mediated city involves levels quantification could have scarcely imagined. However, rather than exacerbating attitude, this paper makes case digital technologies potentially increase ...