The use of spatial modeling techniques in Landscape Studies

Cities are living spaces in which private property and public property are mixed, both subject to variable change patterns in a process of very fast occurrence in Brazil. Considering the landscape in a way as a public good, in the other way a private good, we take into account the value of commu-nication in relation to urban landscape planning.
Despite the current technological reach and diversity of media for communication available in the toolbox, several urban plans are also pre-sented in textual simplified media– zoning dimensional maps, texts and ta-bles with numerical values. This paper discusses an experiment that in-volves a possible approach related to the diagnosis, prognosis and especially the communication of urban planning for the community. Re-garding the diagnosis / prognosis, the work compares experiences of modi-fying actions on the territory and over the intraurban landscape through the analysis of impacts of modifying actions on the landscape.
Besides getting established as a tool to evaluate the impact on the landscape, the paper concludes that the techniques discussed are examples of new forms of communication and management of facilities to be im-plemented through collaborative maps and other techniques, which directs the discussions and project processes on urban planning.

Cities are living spaces in which private property and public property are mixed, both subject to variable change patterns in a process of very fast occurrence in Brazil. Considering the landscape in a way as a public good, in the other way a private good, we take into account the value of commu-nication in relation to urban landscape planning.
Despite the current technological reach and diversity of media for communication available in the toolbox, several urban plans are also pre-sented in textual simplified media– zoning dimensional maps, texts and ta-bles with numerical values. This paper discusses an experiment that in-volves a possible approach related to the diagnosis, prognosis and especially the communication of urban planning for the community. Re-garding the diagnosis / prognosis, the work compares experiences of modi-fying actions on the territory and over the intraurban landscape through the analysis of impacts of modifying actions on the landscape.
Besides getting established as a tool to evaluate the impact on the landscape, the paper concludes that the techniques discussed are examples of new forms of communication and management of facilities to be im-plemented through collaborative maps and other techniques, which directs the discussions and project processes on urban planning.