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...

This article adopts the premise that the work of Nikos A. Salingaros marks a true beginning for seriously regaining what cultures and societies have lost throughout the years through the work of many architects, urbanists, and decision makers. It explores the three monographs he has written and views them as a new “De Architectura” for 21st century architecture and urbanism. The article reflect...

In their piece “Toward a Dracula Urbanism: Smart City Building in Flint and Jakarta,” Wilson Wyly (2022) inaugurate urbanism as an explanatory framework for identifying previously unnoticed dynamics advanced capitalist cities, particularly those engaging smart city initiatives. From the perspective of LA, radically different context from Wyly’s choices Jakarta, I argue that logic can be extende...

there was a turning point in each period of time which human has discovered a new sight about the world and nature order in a way, and then has presented this relation by numeral, artful and industrial language. biourbanism focuses on the urban organism, considering it as a hyper complex system, according to its internal and external dynamics and their mutual interactions. nowadays when it is t...

A major attraction of the popular and influential planning movements known as ’the new urbanism’, ’transit-oriented development’, and ’neotraditional planning’ are their presumed transportation benefits. Though the architects and planners promoting these ideas are usually careful to emphasize the many ingredients necessary to obtain desired results -the straightening of streets to open the loca...