• DocumentCode
    1340487
  • Title

    Visualization in urban planning: they didn´t build LA in a day

  • Author

    Delaney, Ben

  • Author_Institution
    CyberEdge Inf. Services, USA
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2000
  • Firstpage
    10
  • Lastpage
    16
  • Abstract
    Like Rome, Los Angeles was not built in a day, and if it had to be done again, thanks to modern planning, zoning, environmental, civic, and political considerations, LA might not get built at all. However, the Urban Simulation Team (UST) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and similar groups around the world are using interactive visual simulations (VizSims) and virtual reality (VR) to accelerate the process of designing and obtaining approvals for new buildings and developments
  • Keywords
    architectural CAD; data visualisation; digital simulation; town and country planning; virtual reality; University of California; Urban Simulation Team; architectural CAD; building design; interactive visual simulations; urban planning visualisation; virtual reality; zoning; Buildings; Cities and towns; Computational modeling; Databases; Hardware; Milling machines; Process design; Uniform resource locators; Urban planning; Visualization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1716
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/38.844365
  • Filename
    844365