At its current development stage, CityZoom is a Decision Support System for urban planning. It provides an environment where different performance models can operate interactively, seeking to optimize the urban planning process. Each of these models corresponds to a module that implements them in the computational environment.
Its main difference and strength if compared to CAD or GIS is that a specific city model was designed. Data is represented in a object-oriented model representing the urban structure (city, blocks, roads, plots, buildings, etc) so that information can be obtained at any required level. Each performance model in the CityZoom environment operates within its correspondent part of the computational structure, affecting all the related objects and models. Model integration is possible, since the correlation between any given part is determined by the model (e.g., the building is contained by a plot, and a set of plots is contained in a block).
Comments