TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a Computational Description of Urban Patterns An Urban Formulation Ontology
AU - Montenegro, Nuno C.
AU - Duarte, José P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research described in this paper is partially funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnolo-gia (FCT) through the City Induction project (PTDC/ AUR/64384/2006), which is hosted by ICIST. The authors thank ‘City Induction’ project team members, José N. Beirão and Jorge Gil, as well as Jorge Rocha on GIS; for the engaging discussions and valuable comments during the development of the research.
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PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This study is concerned with the formulation of solutions for urban problems. It departs from Alexander’s pattern language theory and urban design guidelines, to create a system for generating specifications or the ingredients of a plan, given a scale, a site and a community. It takes into account strategies, regulations, guidelines, physical features of the site, and furthermore, the social, cultural and economic characteristics of the population. This system, sorted by a sequence of events, through stages, categories, methods and agents, describes taxonomic levels and their inner relations. Such an ontology provides a pattern encoding structure towards a computational model within the capabilities provided by the spatial data modeling of GIS (GIS-O). The urban formulation model is conceived to increase qualitative inputs, reducing ambiguities, through a flexible while automate process applied to urban planning.
AB - This study is concerned with the formulation of solutions for urban problems. It departs from Alexander’s pattern language theory and urban design guidelines, to create a system for generating specifications or the ingredients of a plan, given a scale, a site and a community. It takes into account strategies, regulations, guidelines, physical features of the site, and furthermore, the social, cultural and economic characteristics of the population. This system, sorted by a sequence of events, through stages, categories, methods and agents, describes taxonomic levels and their inner relations. Such an ontology provides a pattern encoding structure towards a computational model within the capabilities provided by the spatial data modeling of GIS (GIS-O). The urban formulation model is conceived to increase qualitative inputs, reducing ambiguities, through a flexible while automate process applied to urban planning.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79955474069
SN - 9780954118372
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
SP - 239
EP - 247
BT - ARCHITECTURE ‘in computro’ Integrating methods and techniques
A2 - Muylle, Marc
PB - Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
T2 - 26th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2008
Y2 - 17 September 2008 through 19 September 2008
ER -