[sustran] Test drive... a cityscape

Todd Edelman edelman at greenidea.info
Mon Jul 3 01:54:47 JST 2006


Test driving a cityscape

The world's cities are growing all the time, and in France some are being
modelled by computer for the purposes of urban redevelopment.

Excerpt starting with my favourite bench expert (seriously):

Architect Jan Gehl says: "You can never animate in a machine how people
would like to sit on a bench or not like to sit on a bench.

"It will always be a balance between using really genius technological
tools to short-cut the working processes, to be able to assess quicker
what you've thought up, and studying the real-life situation and using
your own senses directly with the environment."

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/5130712.stm

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