Measuring physical changes in an urban regeneration scheme

Abstract

Urban regeneration refers to the process of improving the condition of urban quarters, mostly the dilapidated historic areas. The heritage-led urban regeneration induces life into decaying assets and developing the future potential of a neighbourhood. It is a comprehensive and integrated vision and action which leads to the resolution of urban problems and which seeks to bring a lasting improvement into the economic, physical, social and environment condition of an area that has been subject to change. The changes in physical aspect of urban areas represent the impact of the regeneration scheme on the place. Improve condition of historic areas resulting from the conservation work carried out is believed to support the regeneration of the area as a whole. A detailed analysis of the historical context of the built form could provide valuable information of the urban morphology of the place. Townscape evaluation is a quantitative data collection methodology used to assess the physical condition of the urban heritage areas. This method involves a scoring system and has been used to assess the effectiveness of Townscape Heritage Initiatives schemes in the UK. Improvements in socio-cultural indicators in the score sheet have been made and used in the assessment of historic urban characteristics of heritage areas in Malaysia. The result from the assessment serves as a baseline indicators for the condition of the townscape of the heritage areas. The results highlighted the areas that require further improvement, hence to support future regeneration initiatives.

Visualization Terrain Data Using Cubic Ball Triangular Patches

“…But from the results, they claim that, their scheme gives same result as in Goodman and Said [3] except with lesser computation time. In this study, we will prove that the scheme presented 0 = u in Said and Rahmat [5] is not C 1 at each of the adjacent triangles. We propose new sufficient condition for C 1 continuity.…”

“…Said and Rahmat [5] has utilized the cubic Ball triangular for scattered data. They show that cubic Ball will produce C 1 surface for the data obtained from some true function.…”

“…Their result is different that Chan and Ong [1] scheme. The main objective of this study is to improve the main stated result in Said and Rahmat [5] i.e. to derive the correct C 1 condition for scattered data interpolation.…”

“…Besides that, scattered data also can be used for shape preserving interpolation such as to preserves the positivity of surface data. Some early studied includes Said and Rahmat [5] consider cubic Ball triangular for scattered data interpolation. Goodman and Said [3] discussed the method to construct a C 1 surface by calculating three different inner Bezier ordinates for each triangle.…”

Melaka Streetscape Evolution: The six years journey

“…Urban renewal, revitalization and redevelopment are part of the major urban regeneration scheme. Regeneration in context on Melaka, emphasis on redevelopment of areas which encompass modern development, while maintaining as much as possible of the historic fabric by local acts and policy 2014). The proposal for the economic improvement of the streets by the local authorities was aimed to add variety to the current local economy of the area, by providing opportunities for traditional small businesses.…”