Geoprocessing, Multi-criteria Analysis, conflict of interest and simulation of landscape intervention: learning topics in urban planning, at UFMG-Brazil

Link: Google Books

The article reports the experience of training students of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Minas Gerais in the use of geotechnologies to support the analysis, planning and proposal of the urban landscape. Presents a case study of urban planning at neighborhood scale, an area with significant spatial complexity due to being the axis of urban expansion and the target of speculation, while it still holds remarkable landscape and environmental resources of great value. Students learn about procedures for GIS and digital processing of satellite images. Apply spatial analysis models, particularly Multi Criteria Analysis for identification of potential and conflicts of interest in land use. The principles of perception and spatial cognition enable students to represent the area’s image and vocation. The geo-technologies and the three-dimensional representation of the territory is used to support the proposed zoning and urban parameters indicated by the students to conform the designed landscape.