Complex Urbanities

Daniel Fink / 2018

Digital Technology

This report investigates the use of digital techniques in urban design. New technologies and processes have a profound impact on the shaping of cities. The incorporation of digital techniques into urban design practice presents practitioners with a radically productive set of tools to engage and orchestrate contemporary urban development. This report investigates the effect of computational approaches to the design and production of complex urban development.

The report adopts three lines of investigation: a review of the field of computational urban design; a series of interviews with thought-leaders, researchers, scientists, and practitioners in the field; and a speculative design project that utilizes digital techniques. It includes interviews with urbanists and academics Dan Hill, José Durante and José Beirãro, computer scientist Peter Wonka, and architect & urban designer Christian Derix.

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