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Integrating Urban Simulation and Visualization

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Book cover Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 242))

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Urban simulation and visualization are useful to a variety of applications, including content generation for entertainment, simulation, and training, and for regional planning agencies to evaluate alternative transportation investments, land use regulations, and environmental protection policies. In this chapter, we provide a brief overview of urban simulation models, an overview of visualization strategies applied to urban models, and how recent work has built upon a synergy of urban simulation, urban visualization, and computer graphics to produce new approaches that tightly integrate previously separate areas. This last aspect exploits a form of in-situ visualization enhancing the ability of both the simulations and the visualizations. The presented collections of works represent state-of-the-art methods that will educate the reader on the latest thoughts and approaches in the field.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Daniel G. Aliaga

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  1. Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore

    Stefan Müller Arisona  & Gideon Aschwanden  & 

  2. Chair of Information Architecture, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Jan Halatsch

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Peter Wonka

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Aliaga, D.G. (2012). Integrating Urban Simulation and Visualization. In: Arisona, S.M., Aschwanden, G., Halatsch, J., Wonka, P. (eds) Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29758-8_14

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