Place Identity and PlaceMaker: Planning the Urban Sustainability

The questions connected to the urban analysis, which study aspects that are not univocally translatable into objective facts, regard in particular three appearances: the scientificity, and so the objectivity of the results and the repeatability of the method in different contexts; the updating capability, and so the possibility to add new data, to modify the existing ones and to obtain other results; and the times, and so the sustainable possibility of using the results respecting the evolution of a sustainable programming and town planning process. To answer to those questions the method of analysis PlaceMaker and the relative software, actually under development, have the following main characteristics: flexibility, facility and rapidity of use, strong graphical impact, and indexing of the results. PlaceMaker is a method for analyzing the contemporary urban landscape designed to identify the elements that do not feature in traditional mapping and that constitute the contemporary identity of the places, ...