Abstract
The mapping of different aspects of urban phenomena and their relation to the physical cityscape has been greatly extended by the use of geomatics. The tradition to base reasoning on ‘understanding the world’ dates from the time of Aristotle. The extension plan for Barcelona (Eixample), developed by Cerdà, which opened the era of modern urban planning, was preceded by analyses of rich data, describing both detailed demographic issues and physical structures. The contemporary, postmodernist city planning continues this tradition, although a shift towards analyses of more human-related issues can be observed, covering, inter alia, citizens’ perception, cultural differences and patterns of human activities with regard to distinct social groups. The change towards a more human-related perspective and the inclusion of urban morphology analyses are direct consequences of this trend. The required data may be gathered within a crowd-sourcing participation process. According to communicative planning theory, communication with the wider public is indispensable in order to achieve the best results, and can be realized with the use of sophisticated IT tools. Evidence-based reasoning may be supported by images of significant aesthetic values, which inspire immediate reactions.
Highlights
Human geomatics, analogous to humanistic geography—with origins relating to the works of Yi FuTuan [1]—introduces a qualitative description of human activities, including perception and emotions, into the general concept of geomatics, which developed as a qualitative method of describing the phenomena of the physical world
As Lynch [25] admits: “In the development of an image, education will be quite as important as the reshaping of what is seen. They together form a circular, or hopefully a spiral, process: visual education impelling the citizen to act upon his visual world, and this action causing him to see even more accurately
A highly-developed art of urban design is linked to the creation of a critical and attentive audience
Summary
Analogous to humanistic geography—with origins relating to the works of Yi FuTuan [1]—introduces a qualitative description of human activities, including perception and emotions, into the general concept of geomatics, which developed as a qualitative method of describing the phenomena of the physical world. Between 1847 and 1857, during the design process of Barcelona's Eixample, Ildefons Cerdà, considered to be the founder of contemporary urbanism, gathered a set of statistical data covering demography, education and life standards, and such factors as carriage transport and parameters describing the physical structure, including: construction intensity, impermeability and city facilities, such as infrastructure, lighting systems and paving [5]. Research Lab, QUT [14]; and (4) Architectural League of NY, i.e.,: Sentient City [15]. These projects concentrate mostly on the modeling of human activities, the issues of perception and human reactions to the environment constitute an attractive subject for studies, e.g. These projects concentrate mostly on the modeling of human activities, the issues of perception and human reactions to the environment constitute an attractive subject for studies, e.g. [16,17]
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