Survey of comfort and cityscape: Methodological considerations for the definition of a graphic code and related experimental applications

Abstract

The goal of this study was to define a language based on a coding of graphic-symbolic type that could describe the comfort of a city. The research traces cultural and disciplinary foundations of the urban survey using reasoned analysis and then proposes a system of representation. The first setting of an information system for the survey of urban comfort is illustrated and related to the consolidated city (in the field of historic buildings or new construction). We describe some experimental tests concerning the proposed method and report a study area that has had attention for some years that has achieved a reliable and stabilized result except for some inevitable setups. The studies were on parts of the city in transformation. They are currently immature, and they will be the subject of future studies.