Composed Cognitive Maps

Composed cognitive maps are a tool based on grounded theory and on Lynch's urban model of cognitive maps, which allow the transfer of information from ethnographic situations to general patterns, and to the so-called spatial dynamics. In criminological matters, they have been applied in the context of environmental and criminology of place to identify criminal situations, criminal patterns, and spatial dynamics of crime. The latter concept has allowed reliable diagnoses for the design of criminal policies. Their advantages are compared with traditional criminometric methods. It introduces a brief compilation of the existing literature on the subject. In a special way, this chapter shows how composed cognitive maps allowed the measurement of drug trafficking networks, police intelligence, and, above all, crime reduction.

Modelo urbano parametricamente ajustável para avaliações lumínicas e simulações | Parametrically adjustable urban model for daylight assessments and simulations

Este artigo trata do desenvolvimento e da análise de um processo paramétrico para a criação de um ambiente urbano cabível de ajustes e de modi­ficações. O objetivo é verificar as mudanças de sombreamento em diversas morfologias urbanas e a possibilidade de utilizar o processo mencionado em outras análises e simulações programáveis. O desenvolvimento desse processo é parte de uma pesquisa que busca a construção e a aplicação de elementos de fachada, bem como a verificação de seu comportamento lumínico. Para a análise mais rápida do comportamento da luz natural diurna em uma gama ampla de ambientes urbanos e em díspares localizações, foi proposta a criação de um ambiente urbano parametricamente ajustável, para que não haja a necessidade de modelar e remodelar inúmeras vezes. Nessa concepção, três etapas foram desenvolvidas: a compreensão e o aprofundamento teórico; o desenvolvimento da programação visual; e a observação e a análise dos cenários recriados. Como resultado, geraram-se diferentes entornos, possibilitando avaliar ambientes urbanos e apro­ximá-los de urbanidades reais, além de verificar o comportamento da luz natural em diferentes situações. Com a conclusão, foi possível comprovar a eficácia do modelo e identificar as potencialida­des da utilização de programação na construção de modelos urbanos.

COVID-19 and the City: A Healthy City Strategy for Pandemic Challenges, from Planning to Action

COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a new coronavirus discovered in 2019. WHO declared COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 as a pandemic that the detection level of cases changed daily, and it can track almost in real-time. This paper used a narrative literature review to address issues of urban quality and lack of exercise. The specific aim was to discuss the concept of a healthy city, indicate a new urban model, and advocate for the increased use of bicycles, outdoor gym/outdoor exercise, walking to reducing pollution, and improving physical, psychological, and social fitness. A healthy city can improve residents’ health by improving conditions of life to face COVID-19 pandemics. It needs the local capacity to prevent the spread of the diseases and design public health concepts concerning the built environment and contemporary towns in a new urban model. Dialogue opportunities in public health can provide essential guidance for designers (architects and town planners), decision-makers, public health experts, and health agencies locally, promoting the actions and policies to transform the city into a healthier neighborhood and salutogenesis.

Manufactured landscapes: the collective memory in industry’s architecture

Post-Industrial infrastructure is disconnected from the active urban environment. As such, post-industrial sites are socially underutilized, economically unproductive, and ecologically damaging to the urban fabric. Because these sites are often seen as undesirable or lacking value they are frequently wiped out, erased from the landscape forever. This thesis addresses this challenge by re-imagining industrial infrastructure as a valuable cultural resource deserving of reclamation and remediation. Taking Windsor as a site-specific example, the thesis demonstrates the opportunity to preserve industrial infrastructure as a cultural resource that maintains the industrial character and collective memory of the place. The proposal reconnects to the urban environment, creates an urban model for industry in the twenty-first century, and maintains the collective memory of a particular place for its people.

Manufactured landscapes: the collective memory in industry’s architecture

Post-Industrial infrastructure is disconnected from the active urban environment. As such, post-industrial sites are socially underutilized, economically unproductive, and ecologically damaging to the urban fabric. Because these sites are often seen as undesirable or lacking value they are frequently wiped out, erased from the landscape forever. This thesis addresses this challenge by re-imagining industrial infrastructure as a valuable cultural resource deserving of reclamation and remediation. Taking Windsor as a site-specific example, the thesis demonstrates the opportunity to preserve industrial infrastructure as a cultural resource that maintains the industrial character and collective memory of the place. The proposal reconnects to the urban environment, creates an urban model for industry in the twenty-first century, and maintains the collective memory of a particular place for its people.

After the Contagion. Ghost City Centres: Closed “Smart” or Open Greener?

This paper has three main objectives. It traces the “closed” urban model of city development, critiques it at length, showing how it has led to an unsustainable dead-end, represented in post-Covid-19 “ghost town” status for many central cities, and proposes a new “open” model of city design. This is avowedly an unsegregated and non-segmented utilisation of now often abandoned city-centre space in “open” forms favouring urban prairie, or more formalised urban parklands, interspersed with so-called “agritecture” in redundant high-rise buildings, shopping malls and parking lots. It favours sustainable theme-park models of family entertainment “experiences” all supported by sustainable hospitality, integrated mixed land uses and sustainable transportation. Consideration is given to likely financial resource issues but the dearth of current commercial investment opportunities from the old carbonised urban model, alongside public policy and consumer support for urban greening, are concluded to form a propitious post-coronavirus context for furthering the vision.