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Automatic Generation of Virtual 3D City Models for Urban Planning

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In the past 10 years, although planners and designers used a lot of paper drawings and planning documents in local planning committee, they have started to use VR technology gradually to produce a virtual world for citizens understanding the content of planning and design. Urban Planning Exhibition Hall in Expo’ 2010 at Shanghai applied their unique VR system to show the stakeholders with the Urban Design Guideline in the city. Consequently, stakeholders can discuss with each other about the future of the city using the virtual 3D city model. On the one hand, designers and planners can get information feedback from the stakeholders to modify their designs; on the other hand, the stakeholders can better learn the content of the urban plan.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the financial support of the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 22560537C), Japan Society of the Promotion of Science.

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  1. Faculty of Business Administration, Gifu Keizai University, Gifu, Japan

    Kenichi Sugihara

  2. School of Environmental Design, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

    Zhenjiang Shen

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Sugihara, K., Shen, Z. (2012). Automatic Generation of Virtual 3D City Models for Urban Planning. In: Geospatial Techniques in Urban Planning. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13559-0_13

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