After launching our 3D City Modelling capability at the MIPIM 2010 Conference and Exhibition in Cannes in March, Virtual Viewing has recently been invited to participate in a second pan-European event to demonstrate both our technical expertise and our understanding of – and strength of service in – the broader aspects of urban design, city planning and place-making. The Image of the City Conference was held in Bratislava on 11 May, and featured speakers from five countries who represented professions and disciplines as diverse as architecture, graphic design, philosophy and economics.
The Conference took its name from an influential book, written by Kevin Lynch in 1960, that drew on the results of a five-year study on how people perceive spatial information as they navigate through the urban landscape. Like much of his work, it is concerned with finding ways of harnessing what we know about how we ‘see’ cities as the basis for good urban design.
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