| Paper title: | A grammar-based system for the participatory design of urban structures | 
| Authors: | Jacobi, Martina Maldaner; Jan Halatsch; Antje Kunze; Gerhard Schmitt; Benamy Turkienicz | 
| Summary: | We propose a three-step participatory design cycle for the early urban design phase that can be integrated into the digital design chain. Step one involves a visualization method that is implemented as an interactive card-based interview technique for the collaborative requirement specification of urban designs. In step two these specifications are a) translated into simplified GIS data and then b) implemented into a grammar-based system together with the corresponding design regulations. The final outcome is a generative and iterative urban model, which includes buildings, building blocks, transportation networks and open spaces that visually communicates spatial impacts of urban design proposals. | 
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| Year of publication: | 2009 | 
| Keywords: | City modeling; participatory design; shape grammars; urban planning | 
| Series: | CUMINCADes:SIGRADI | 
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| Citation: | Jacobi, Martina Maldaner; Jan Halatsch; Antje Kunze; Gerhard Schmitt; Benamy Turkienicz (2009). A grammar-based system for the participatory design of urban structures . SIGraDi 2009 - Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 16-18, 2009, http://itc.scix.net/paper/sigradi2009_669 |