Digital Modelling for Urban Design

<strong>Digital Modelling for Urban Design</strong> Brian McGrath A highly topical text bookthat introduces the powerful technique of digital modelling to a wid... » 

Digital Modelling for Urban Design Brian McGrath A highly topical text bookthat introduces the powerful technique of digital modelling to a wide audienceof students architects designers planners and urban citizens and anyoneelse involved in the complex decisionmaking processes involved in shaping theurban environment. Drawing on two decades of teaching and practising urbandesign Brian McGrath explores new theories and technologies of digitalmodelling to create moving and interactive 3d drawing situated within thehistories of urban theory design and representation. The book is boththeoretical and practical. For the main examples Rome New York and Bangkok McGrath draws on his own experience of living and working in these three citieson three different continents. Analytical discussions of the cities combinehistorical and abstract knowledge with the ground truth of empiricalexperience. While a rich array of urban studies books have been published overthe last thirty years there is currently no single book like this that bringstogether urban design theory and new digital technologies in urban informationmapping modelling and 3d simulation as a way of understanding how citiestransform and differentiate over time. «