A digital image of the city: 3D isovists in Lynch's urban analysis

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 837-853

  Morello, Eugenio ^a,b   Ratti, Carlo ^a  

^a SENSEable City Laboratory   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL IMAGE; PIXEL; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN;

EID: 70350648026     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b34144t     Document Type: Article

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