Understanding ecosystem services trade-offs with interactive procedural modeling for sustainable urban planning

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-116

  Grêt Regamey, Adrienne ^a   Celio, Enrico ^a   Klein, Thomas M ^a   Wissen Hayek, Ulrike ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Masdar City; Procedural modeling; Shape grammars, 3D visualizations; Urban ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; URBAN GROWTH; VISUALIZATION;

3D VISUALIZATION; INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES; INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATIONS; MASDAR CITY; PROCEDURAL MODELING; SUSTAINABLE PROVISION; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ESTHETICS; GIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRADE-OFF; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

ABU DHABI [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; MASDAR; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84870387397     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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