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by stevenrace
5019 days ago
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I've been transfixed with the idea of 'Digital Comparative Studies of Cities' (or some similar turn of phrase). With the advent of mapping projects (GoogleMaps, Openstreetmap, etc), environmental sensor networks (my startup's area), and cheaper LiDAR arrays (for point cloud mappings of buildings and terrain...now in CMOS form) - we'll be able to quantify the homogeny of surbanization, architectural 'themes', road uniformity, development rates, etc over time. There are lots of similarly clever projects cited on BLDGBlog [1] if you're into this kind of thing. [1] http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/ |
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You'll be interested in this paper http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/whatMakesParis/