IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envirb/v49y2022i2p519-534.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Towards a new image archive for the built environment

Author

Listed:
  • Kartikeya Date
  • Yael Allweil

Abstract

The ever-growing online corpus of images of the built environment, on social media and mapping platforms, offers a new kind of archive of the built environment. Recent advances in computer vision, specifically convolutional neural networks, offer new ways of querying and analyzing large image corpuses. In this paper, we propose a new method by which historians of the built environment can use these vast image corpuses in their study, enabling new research questions. To demonstrate proof of need, we report on an ongoing case study in Tel Aviv that attempts to show the feasibility of our proposed method for enabling a Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL)-based approach to the study of the built environment. In so doing, we show how such image corpuses could potentially form a new type of archive for architectural and urban history.

Suggested Citation

  • Kartikeya Date & Yael Allweil, 2022. "Towards a new image archive for the built environment," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 49(2), pages 519-534, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:49:y:2022:i:2:p:519-534
    DOI: 10.1177/23998083211011474
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23998083211011474
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/23998083211011474?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Lucien Benguigui & Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal & Daniel Czamanski, 2006. "The Dynamics of the Tel Aviv Morphology," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 33(2), pages 269-284, April.
    2. Chirag Rabari & Michael Storper, 2015. "Editor's choice The digital skin of cities: urban theory and research in the age of the sensored and metered city, ubiquitous computing and big data," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 8(1), pages 27-42.
    3. Yael Allweil & Noa Zemer, 2019. "Housing-Based Urban Planning? Sir Patrick Geddes’ Modern Masterplan for Tel Aviv, 1925," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 4(3), pages 167-185.
    4. Rabari, Chirag & Storper, Michael, 2015. "The digital skin of cities: urban theory and research in the age of the sensored and metered city, ubiquitous computing and big data," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 63028, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Chiara Cavalieri & Michael Stas & Marcelo Rovira Torres, 2020. "The ‘Analogue City’: Mapping and Acting in Antwerp’s Digital Geographies," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 289-300.
    2. James Cummings, 2020. "“Look How Many Gays There Are Here”: Digital Technologies and Non-Heterosexual Space in Haikou," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 347-357.
    3. E.V. Popov, 2021. "Drivers of the Economy in the Context of the Coronavirus Pandemic," Journal of Applied Economic Research, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, vol. 20(1), pages 5-30.
    4. Dannenberg Peter & Braun Boris & Fuchs Martina & Revilla Diez Javier, 2018. "Dynamics in an unequal world," Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, De Gruyter, vol. 62(2), pages 87-91, May.
    5. Amy Glasmeier & Susan Christopherson, 2015. "Thinking about smart cities," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 8(1), pages 3-12.
    6. Emilia Rönkkö & Aulikki Herneoja & Essi Oikarinen, 2018. "Cybernetics and the 4D Smart City: Smartness as Awareness," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-10, April.
    7. Pucci, Paola & Vecchio, Giovanni, 2019. "Trespassing for mobilities. Operational directions for addressing mobile lives," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    8. Libor Měsíček, 2015. "Context Sources and their Processing in Company Security," Acta Informatica Pragensia, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2015(1), pages 44-51.
    9. David McGillivray & Severin Guillard & Emma Reid, 2020. "Urban Connective Action: The Case of Events Hosted in Public Space," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 252-266.
    10. Sawsan Abutabenjeh & Julius A. Nukpezah & Annus Azhar, 2022. "Do Smart Cities Technologies Contribute to Local Economic Development?," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 36(1), pages 3-16, February.
    11. Eunmi Lee & Sanghyuk Lee & Kyeong Soo Kim & Van Huy Pham & Jinbae Sul, 2019. "Analysis of Public Complaints to Identify Priority Policy Areas: Evidence from a Satellite City around Seoul," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-17, November.
    12. Ulysses Sengupta & Mahmud Tantoush & May Bassanino & Eric Cheung, 2020. "The Hybrid Space of Collaborative Location-Based Mobile Games and the City: A Case Study of Ingress," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 358-370.
    13. Andrew Sudmant & Vincent Viguié & Quentin Lepetit & Lucy Oates & Abhijit Datey & Andy Gouldson & David Watling, 2021. "Fair weather forecasting? The shortcomings of big data for sustainable development, a case study from Hubballi‐Dharwad, India," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(6), pages 1237-1248, November.
    14. Malecki, Edward J., 2017. "Real people, virtual places, and the spaces in between," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 3-12.
    15. Xingjian Liu & Jianghao Wang, 2015. "The geography of Weibo," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 47(6), pages 1231-1234, June.
    16. Matthew S. Hanchard, 2020. "Digital Maps and Senses of Security: The Influence of a Veracious Media on Urban Life," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 301-311.
    17. Tyurchev, Kirill, 2021. "Управление Инновационными Системами: От Национального До Локального Уровня [Management of Innovative Systems: From National to Local LeveL]," MPRA Paper 111908, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    18. Ryan Burns & Max Andrucki, 2021. "Smart cities: Who cares?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(1), pages 12-30, February.
    19. Hug March & Álvaro-Francisco Morote & Antonio-Manuel Rico & David Saurí, 2017. "Household Smart Water Metering in Spain: Insights from the Experience of Remote Meter Reading in Alicante," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-18, April.
    20. Fenna Imara Hoefsloot & Javier Martínez & Christine Richter & Karin Pfeffer, 2020. "Expert-Amateurs and Smart Citizens: How Digitalization Reconfigures Lima’s Water Infrastructure," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 312-323.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:49:y:2022:i:2:p:519-534. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.