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A. Day

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Modelling the city A. Day Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture, University of Bath, UK ABSTRACT This paper describes the construction of a three-dimensional computer model of the City of Bath and its development into an urban information system. The hypermedia application used to structure the underlying database is described and and the use of the system to consider issues of planning and conservation discussed. INTRODUCTION Over the past ten years or so there has been an increasing public awareness of architectural issues. The pronouncements of the Prince of Wales have given voice to a widely held view that many of the buildings constructed since the war are unsatisfactory in a number of ways. The strongest feelings often have to do with how buildings look and, in particular, how they relate to existing buildings within an historic setting. In Bath, confidence has become so low that the architectural correspondent of the local newspaper, himself an architect,

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