urban survey

Perception and Communication of Urban Space: Observations on Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Representations of Rome

The cartographic representation of Rome is as varied as its history;
however there are several qualitatively significant discontinuities within an
evolutionary process we can consider as linear. The research presented here
focuses on a specific selection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century maps of the
city of Rome as a way to discuss not only one of these glaring discontinuities,
but also several aspects linked to the perception and communication of the
image of the city in the period preceding the more meticulous representations

Responsive Urban Models by Processing Sets of Heterogeneous Data

This paper presents some steps in experimentation aimed at describing urban spaces made following the series of earthquakes that affected a vast area of central Italy starting on 24 August 2016. More specifically, these spaces pertain to historical centres of limited size and case studies that can be called "problematic" (due to complex morphological and settlement conditions, because they are difficult to access, or because they have been affected by calamitous events, etc.).

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