This article deals with the increasingly digital augmentation of urban space and looks at how so far initiatives in this sense have been deployed in a way that is disconnected from urban design knowledge and practice. The aim here is to contribute to a reflection on how urban design perspectives can – and should – play an important role in informing such developments. It promotes, through a ser...

We present our approach on how smart city technologies may enhance the learning process. We have developed the CLIO urban computing system, which invites people to share personal memories and interact the collective city memory. Various educational scenarios and activities were performed exploiting CLIO; in this paper we present the methodology we followed and the experience we gained. Learning...

Space syntax studies of pedestrian behaviour in building and urban environments have shown that there is a consistent correspondence between the configuration of space and the patterns of usage found within it. In particular, it has been shown that the topological relationships within a spatial system correlate to observed aggregate pedestrian movement. However, there is no proposed mechanism s...

In order to clarify the impact of Shinkansen network extension on tourism development in Japan, this study investigates the change of tourism demand and tourist behavior in Tohoku and Kyushu Region by using statistical data collected by MLIT and JTA. The results suggest that tourism arrivals increased significantly in cities that were connected by the extended Shinkansen network. In addition, m...

Three-dimensional (3D) city models present and animate all urban features such as buildings, highways, parking areas bridges on computer platform. 3D city reconstruction helps to set a base for reorganizing current city structures and it is an important requirement to help future decision-making process. A 3D model shows what is going to change and happen at the end of a new design. It explains...

Marketing added value is one of the key concepts of successful differentiation in an increasingly competitive tourism market. This paper examines the impact of perceived added value as a source of differentiation on the competitive advantage of urban tourism destinations. The main goal of the paper is to determine that tourists who perceived partial components of added value in destinations giv...

Capturing vehicular travel behavior is one of the most popular models that deal with relevant aspects of urban regions and communities. Since 1960s, it has been matured and evolved to cover all aspects of travel demand applications. Different theories are employed to predict the movement of trip makers’ likewise metric method and the estimation of origin-destination matrixes, intervening opport...

Capturing vehicular travel behavior is one of the most popular models that deal with relevant aspects of urban regions and communities. Since 1960s, it has been matured and evolved to cover all aspects of travel demand applications. Different theories are employed to predict the movement of trip makers’ likewise metric method and the estimation of origin-destination matrixes, intervening opport...

Quantitative identification of physical changes, developments and dynamic position of urban green space is considered as the first step in its planning. By means of the aerial photos taken in 1956, 1974, and 1994 as well as the Quick Bird satellite image captured in 2006, this study has dealt with changes in per capita green space in Khorramabad during these years. First, geometric corrections ...