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Drone Futures
UAS in Landscape and Urban Design
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Author Paul Cureton balances philosophical discourse with practical guidance, enriched by international case studies, making this work an essential resource on the future of aerial spatial technologies in design.
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Drone Futures is ideal for design professionals and students interested in architecture, urban planning, and landscape design. It suits readers keen to explore emerging drone technologies and their applications within smart city development and advanced mapping techniques.
Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems in landscape and urban design.
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Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS, or drones, can be deployed with direct application to the built environment. This book explores the myriad of contemporary and future possibilities of the design medium, its aesthetic, mapping agency, AI, mobility, and contribution to smart cities.
Drones present innovative possibilities, operating in a ‘hover space’ between human scales of landscape observation and light aircraft, providing a unique resolution of space. This book shows how UAS can be utilised to provide new perspectives on spatial layout, landscape and urban conditions, data capture for construction monitoring, and simulation of design proposals.
Author Paul Cureton examines both the philosophical use of these tools and practical steps for implementation by designers. Illustrated in full colour throughout, Drone Futures discusses UAS and their connectivity to other design technologies and processes, including mapping and photogrammetry, AR/VR, drone AI and drones for construction and fabrication, new mobilities, smart cities, and city information models (CIMs). It is specifically geared towards professionals seeking to understand UAS applications and future development, and students seeking an understanding of the role of drones and airspace in the built environment and its powerful geographic imaginary.
With international contributions, multidisciplinary sources, and case studies, Drone Futures examines new powers of flight for visualising, interpreting, and presenting landscapes and urban spaces of tomorrow.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780815380511
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 July 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Routledge
Illustration: 29 Line drawings, color; 193 Halftones, color; 222 Illustrations, color
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 174.0mm
Height: 246.0mm
Weight: 460g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Paul Cureton is a drone pilot and Senior Lecturer in Design at ImaginationLancaster and member of the Data Science Institute, Lancaster University, UK. His research interest revolves around the agency and expression of futures and methods in landscape and architecture in the built environment. This research interest has manifested itself in the exploration of the power of urban visions and speculative futures, the history and future of vertical urbanism through drones and the use of 3D mapping, geo-design and digital twins for urban design and planning. His recent publications include the monograph Strategies for Landscape Representation: Digital and Analogue Techniques (2016). He is co-author, with Nick Dunn, of Future Cities: A Visual Guide (2020).
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