A townscape has been a main factor in urban-development problems in Japan. In the townscape, keeping harmony with environment is a common goal. But useful and meaningful goals are expressing individuality and impression of the town in the townscape. In this paper, we propose the colour planning support system to improve the townscape. The system finds propositional colour combinations based on ...

Application of cultural and landscape approach ensures better opportunities for explorers designers to control the development historic towns formation on their territories sustainable system protection natural heritage. The following principles form basic notion historical town landscape: townscape is functionally set up in process interaction between men nature; there a close interrelation ma...

urban spaces are like a dramatic stage, in which buildings and street’s facades are the actors. while people are passing through streets, they will communicate the information with the environment, as well as, explore and study the spaces. people transfer the greatest number of information from the urban space and the surrounding environment through their visual senses. hiking determines one of...

Following our previous research on developing a dynamic virtual city system (Sheffield Urban Contextual Databank, SUCoD), the paper reports on a study of applying the virtual city resources to an undergraduate urban design course. The study focuses on how the multi-dimensional and multiple types of urban contextual data can be used by student designers directly for urban visual analysis and des...