TY - BOOK T1 - CAAD Talks 4: Insights of Digital Cities T2 - CAAD Talks Y1 - 2005 ED - Mao-Lin Chiu KW - Computer-Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) KW - Digital Cities KW - Digital City Models AB -

The emergence of computers and communication technologies, including Computer Graphics (CG), Computer aided design (CAD), Photogrammetry, Virtual Reality (VR), Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS) and web-based technologies foster the birth of 3D digital cities. The creation of 3D digital cities has become a trend for better understanding the built environment.

A 3D digital city is defined in this book as a comprehensive, web-based representation, or reproduction, of several aspects or functions of a specific real city or a virtual city, open to all kinds of users.

This volume will depict the recent development of digital cities in order to address why and how we are creating digital cities. The introductory chapter provides an overall review the recent development of digital cities. 3D digital cities are not only representing the characteristics of cities, but its users and activities within the cities. In this volume, the cases selected to demonstrate the digital city development including different regions such as Asian cities (Tainan, Kaohsiung, Beijing, Kumamoto, Okayama, Singapore), Europe (London, Glasgow, Bath, Graz, Livepool, Sheffield), and virtual ones (Chung-An, Cyberjaya), and North America (LA). The applications of city modeling spread from virtual visits, cultural exploration to urban design. If there is one city to go, then various approaches and technologies demonstrate their availability to deliver city data and usefulness.

The book should be of interest to people working in a variety of fields including the following.

(1) Practicing architects and urban planners
(2) Researchers and developers in digital cities
(3) Teachers and students in planning and design domain

During the one and half years editorial period, it is a challenge to the editor, because the difficulty to demonstrate the whole story of digital city development, to search of international expertise to write each article, and to finally edit the topics as a serial of articles in a book. Fortunately, the editorial work is with full cooperation from the authors contribute the main contents of the publication. The international contributors include Dr Michael Grant (Strathclyde), Prof. Alay Day (Bath), Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, Stephen Evans & Prof. Michael Batty (UCL), Prof. Wolfgang Dokonal (TU Graz), Dr. Chengzhi Peng (Sheffield), Prof. Andre Brown (Liverpool), Prof. Heng Chye Kiang (Singapore), Prof. Chiu-Shui Chan (ISU), Prof. Mitsuo Morozumi (Kumamoto), Prof. Atsuko Kaga and Prof. Tsuyoshi Tee Sasada(Osaka U), Dr. Ahmad Rafi Mohamed Eshaq (Cyberjaya), and Prof. Han-Liang Lin (NCKU). I am particularly grateful for the assistance by Dr. Chengzhi Peng and Mr. Anand Bhat for their encouragement and editorial comments.

Meanwhile, ARCHIDATA (Taipei) and Architexturez Imprints India (Delhi) provide publication distributing service. Mr. Jyun- Min Chen and my research assistant Miss Jia-Mint Hsu support editorial work. Because all these factors make this publication possible, the most valuable experience can be shared with the future CAAD practitioners, educators, and researchers.

JA - CAAD Talks PB - Archidata Co., Ltd. CY - Taipei, Taiwan VL - 4 J1 - Architectural Computing ID - AZ-CF-96851 SN - 9570454652 ER -