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Book Review - Digital representation of the Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
Book Review - Digital representation of the Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake

Author(s): Marina Mihaila
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism »Ion Mincu«
Keywords: Urban planning; landscape; research projects; book review; Maria Bostenaru Dan; Thomas Panagopoulos; EUIM; UAUIM

Summary/Abstract: Following an interesting and contemporary approach, the book Digital representation of the impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earth quake presents in a creative and interactive thinking, based on several models of 3d city, directions and meanings of the seismic impact on the cities. A comparative model of investigation based on geometrical visualization and its semantic enrichment with non-geometric information is developed within the presented research, and the results are highlighted on Lisbon landscape application referring to 1755 earthquake. The book addresses to landscape and architecture professionals, academics and students, but also to everybody who might be interested in new investigation methods and nuanced results on landscape disasters research, likewise possible evidence and marks within the city patterns.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 105-108
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English
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