3D urban data to assess local urban regulation influence

Geospatial Information Visualization and Extended Reality Displays

“…Digital Earth's 'big data' challenges these efforts, stretching the capacity of existing tools to handle and process such datasets as well as the capacity of visualization users to read, understand, and analyze them (Li et al 2016). One application area that is particularly afflicted by visual complexity is research on the urban and social dynamics that drive spatiotemporal dynamics in cities (Brasebin et al 2018;Ruas et al 2011). Developing approaches to represent spatiotemporal phenomena has been a long-standing challenge and many options have been investigated over the years (Andrienko and Andrienko 2006).…”

“…In that vein, realism as a display principle has been called "naive realism" because realistic displays sometimes impair user performance but users still prefer them (e.g., Lokka et al 2018;Smallman and John 2005). The questions of how much abstraction is needed (Boér et al 2013;Çöltekin et al 2015) and what level of realism should be employed (Brasebin et al 2018;Ruas et al 2011) do not have clear-cut answers. In some cases, we need to follow the "Goldilocks principle" because too much or too little realism is suboptimal.…”

Three-Dimensional Rule-Based City Modelling to Support Urban Redevelopment Process

“…Statutory planners have two major tasks: (a) amending the planning controls based on new urban strategies; and (b) conducting new development appraisals on the basis of strategies, regulations, and the city characters (e.g., building heights, vegetation, façade, and other city amenities). The role of 3D city models in statutory planning activities such as shadow effect, sky view factor and set back analyses are investigated in the literature [7,32]. Brasebin et al (2018) [32] developed an algorithm in SimPLU3D (https://simplu3d.github.io/) to support both building designers and statutory planners in evaluating the compatibility of buildings with regulations such as setback, building height to road width ratio, and building footprint ratio.…”

“…The role of 3D city models in statutory planning activities such as shadow effect, sky view factor and set back analyses are investigated in the literature [7,32]. Brasebin et al (2018) [32] developed an algorithm in SimPLU3D (https://simplu3d.github.io/) to support both building designers and statutory planners in evaluating the compatibility of buildings with regulations such as setback, building height to road width ratio, and building footprint ratio. The focus of SimPLU3D is to optimise the city configurations based on planning rules.…”

“…While the current developments and studies have indicated the usefulness and easy-to-use capabilities of 3D city design aspects, most of them remained in the conceptual level and less real-world applications are reported in the literature. Moreover, despite the fact that literature has indicated the importance of parametric and rule-based 3D city models in the urban planning process [10,32], these methods are yet to be implemented in the Australian context. The next section proposes a workflow for a planning control amendment in the Victoria Planning Scheme.…”