Modelling the Appearance and Behaviour of Urban Spaces

Abstract

Urban spaces consist of a complex collection of buildings, parcels, blocks and neighbourhoods interconnected by streets. Accurately modelling both the appearance and the behaviour of dense urban spaces is a significant challenge. The recent surge in urban data and its availability via the Internet has fomented a significant amount of research in computer graphics and in a number of applications in urban planning, emergency management and visualization. In this paper, we seek to provide an overview of methods spanning computer graphics and related fields involved in this goal. Our paper reports the most prominent methods in urban modelling and rendering, urban visualization and urban simulation models. A reader will be well versed in the key problems and current solution methods.

A Survey of Algorithmic Shapes

“…The work of MARKUS LIPP et al is concerned with interactive modeling of entire city layouts [99] using procedural methods. An overview of modeling the appearance and behavior of urban spaces is given by CARLOS A. VANEGAS et al [100].…”

Built by Algorithms – State of the Art Report on Procedural Modeling –

“…On a coarse scale, the procedural paradigm is applicable to the generation of terrain using methods based on hydrology (Génevaux et al, 2013), as well as the generation of roads (Galin et al, 2010), entire city layouts (Lipp et al, 2011) and urban spaces (Vanegas et al, 2010). Within the scale of a building, layouts can be generated (Merrell et al, 2010), (Bao et al, 2013b) exhibiting different façades (Musialski et al, 2012a), (Bao et al, 2013a).…”

All range and heterogeneous multi-scale 3D city models

“…The object oriented building design allows to use LoD specification, but as happens in CityEngine [18], each level is specified manually. For more information, we recommend the interested reader the survey from Kelly and McCabe [19] or the more recent ones by Watson et al [20] or Vanegas et al [21].…”