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Characterisation of the historic urban landscape through the Aristotelian four causes: towards comprehensive GIS databases
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP, Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 1879, p 1879 (2021), Remote Sensing; Volume 13; Issue 10; Pages: 1879
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021.
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Abstract
- The Historic Urban Landscape provides a basis to comprehensively study the city, considering the numerous agents and stakeholders involved in the urban phenomenon. However, the characterisation of the city is challenging, due to the numerous ways of reading and using the city. Although several theoretical approaches address the process of documenting the city, there is still a gap related to the design of a generalised, holistic, and comprehensive framework. This article aims to contribute to this purpose by discussing the concept of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) and its implications for the characterisation of the urban phenomena. The Aristotelian theory of the causes is proposed here as a suitable approach for the description, characterisation, and analysis of virtually any entity by first discussing its theoretical basis and then testing it in a real building located in the historical city, Guimarães, Portugal. A set of tools related to Geographic Information System databases are comprehensively explored during the implementation process of the approach, allowing to identify and discuss a set of limitations, challenges, and opportunities.<br />This research was funded by the European Union through the European Social Found and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the grant number PD/BD/150385/2019.
- Subjects :
- Four causes
Geographic information system
Urban characterisation
Science
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
data acquisition
Historic Urban Landscape
Aristotelian causes
Geographic Information Systems
urban characterisation
11. Sustainability
Regional science
media_common.cataloged_instance
European union
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
Science & Technology
business.industry
Foundation (engineering)
Data acquisition
021107 urban & regional planning
language.human_language
Geography
language
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Portuguese
Urban landscape
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP, Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 1879, p 1879 (2021), Remote Sensing; Volume 13; Issue 10; Pages: 1879
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....63a6974c48b4ef1212d298da3b345453