Unprecedented urbanization is threatening landscape diversity, bringing along new social and environmental problems. Standardized business centers, single family residential areas and shopping malls displace highly productive agricultural land, while the culture and lifestyles of local communities become absorbed into the sphere of globalization. People are losing their sense of place and their motivation to initiate change. The project aims to understand recurrent patterns and processes of place-making and to create a 3D point cloud based decision support tool to foster participatory planning in peri-urban areas and ultimately foster place-making. Further information: plus.ethz.ch/research/forschungsprojekte/GLOBESCAPE.html
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Fischer, J., Wissen Hayek, U., Galleguillos Torres, M., Weibel, B. & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2020). Investigating effects of animated 3D point cloud simulations on emotional responses. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 2020(5), 295-304. doi.org/10.14627/537690031