Wesense: Social sensing the quality of urban environments

Pilot metropolitane landschapskarakterisering Provincie Zuid-Holland

Deze publicatie vormt het eindverslag van de pilotstudie Metropolitane landschapskarakterisering.

Metropolitane landschapskarakterisering

Smart Phones for a Smart City: Requirements for Context Aware Mobile Application for Landscape and Urban Planning

Technologies collecting location-based data in the real world have advantages<br/>over traditional methods for landscape perception research. The<br/>possibility to relate geo-referenced responses of inhabitants to the physical<br/>and social data in expert GIS databases can lead to new insights into the<br/>difference between laymen and expert...

Nature in the metropolis: Mapping biodiversity using metropolitan landscape characterization tools

Cities can be planned and designed to reduce their effect on biodiversity loss and may even be able to sustain biodiversity levels in some instances, due to ‘beta-diversity’. The heterogeneity of metropolitan regions can be expected to have a strong impact on beta-diversity. Tools such as landscape characterization can assist in the...

A method for metropolitan landscape characterization: Case study Rotterdam

This paper presents a theoretical and methodological framework for a comprehensive landscape characterization, focussing on the largest and most complex urban realm: the metropolitan region. Landscape character has in recent years emerged as a new paradigm to understand, monitor and evaluate cultural landscapes undergoing change. The scope of...

Metropolitan landscape characterization: A typo-morphological approach

Dispersed urban regions are characterized by blurred boundaries between urban and rural areas resulting in complex new configurations of urban tissue and landscape space. These new hybrid landscapes challenge existing tools for landscape characterization, which are based on a traditional separation of urban and non-urban realms. This paper...

Metropolitan landscapes in the Netherlands: Effects of policy shifting

The landscape of the Netherlands is a man-made, cultural landscape, mainly flat, apart from regions in the eastern and southern extremities, lying between -6 and 20 meters above sea level. Since the beginning of the last millennium, settlers, farmers, city dwellers and engineers have created a system of dykes, barriers and locks defending a part...

DELTA.M: A tool for metropolitan designing systems

This research deals with the development of a tool to enable designers, decision-makers and citizens to jointly shape the physical environments they inhabit, through interaction and communication via electronic networks. The designing of physical environment becomes the collective responsibility of all interested societal actors, who together...