- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New edition (24 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470034785
- ISBN-13: 978-0470034781
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 1.7 x 28.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,444,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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While there is a rich array of urban theory, design, and representation books available, there is currently no book which brings together, in a single volume, urban design theory and new digital technologies in urban information mapping, modeling, and 3D simulation. Based on two decades of practicing and teaching architecture, author Brian McGrath′s Digital Modelling for Urban Design explores the new theories and technologies of digital modelling, focusing on how to create moving and interactive 3D drawing, skills useful in the context of urban theory, and design and representation. Fully illustrated with original maps, 3D models, and drawings and photographs, this innovative work introduces digital modelling to students, architects, designers, and planners interested in the processes key to shaping the urban environment.
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Digital Modelling for Urban Design
Brian McGrath
A highly topical text book that introduces the powerful technique of digital modelling to a wide audience of students, architects, designers, planners and urban citizens – and anyone else involved in the complex decision–making processes involved in shaping the urban environment.
Drawing on two decades of teaching and practising urban design, Brian McGrath explores new theories and technologies of digital modelling to create moving and interactive 3–d drawing situated within the histories of urban theory, design and representation. The book is both theoretical and practical. For the main examples – Rome, New York and Bangkok – McGrath draws on his own experience of living and working in these three cities on three different continents. Analytical discussions of the cities combine historical and abstract knowledge with the ‘ground truth’ of empirical experience.
While a rich array of urban studies books have been published over the last thirty years, there is currently no single book like this that brings together urban design theory and new digital technologies in urban information mapping, modelling and 3–d simulation, as a way of understanding how cities transform and differentiate over time.
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Urban Design Now
26 Feb 2009
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President Obama's establishment of an Urban Affairs Office again spotlights the need for design of the urban environment which goes far beyond economic exploitation dominated by the real estate and construction industries which has produced ugly chaos in buildings and infrastructure. Mastering the complexities of cities and the forces which shape them is difficult but necessary for sound comprehensive design; otherwise piecemeal endeavors so beloved by dealmakers seeking favorable privileges produce projects of reduced public benefit. To counter aggressive, narrowly-interested manipulators of the urban fabric, design tools are needed to research, study, explore and propose benefits for city dwellers. Brian McGrath's "Digital Modelling for Urban Design" will be welcomed by urban designers faced with daily barrages of commercial demands to forgo overall public interest and concentrate on the avarice of property developers and their batteries of biased financial, legal and design professionals. With the tools he describes it will be possible to reinforce the original purpose for founding urban design: the design, production and preservation of livable, healthy, safe and beautiful cities for all their inhabitants not merely the few who think they rule as their own what belongs to all.
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