Documenting Urban Morphology: From 2D Representations to Metaverse
Alessandro Merlo () and
Gaia Lavoratti
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Alessandro Merlo: Department of Architecture, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy
Gaia Lavoratti: Department of Architecture, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy
Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-15
Abstract:
The documentation of urban morphology is linked to the complex operation of representing the city, which over the centuries has been undertaken using different methodologies, instruments, and purposes. The “IT revolution” has expanded the possibility of overlapping and relating multiple pieces of information in connection to the urban organism on the same support and, on the other hand, has opened up new scenarios linked to the use of urban digital twins to support the analysis and urban planning. The 21st century has marked a momentous turning point compared to the recent past: the advent of artificial intelligence has in fact allowed the introduction, alongside Urban Information Systems, of ‘Predictive’ Systems, capable of formulating new scenarios on the basis of the elements available and pictured on 3D models. At the same time, the technical and technological acquisitions of the last century have contributed to evident experimentation on the metaverse, which, although it still exists in a de-emphasised form, is currently a whole universe under construction and expansion. Its rules are written with every passing day, in which the individual can recreate a reality similar to, or absolutely antithetical to, the one they experience on a daily basis, populating virtual cities that elude the established urban dynamics of physical structures.
Keywords: urban representation; urban analysis; 3D digital model; urban digital twin; information communication technology; city information modelling; artificial intelligence; metaverse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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