Schwarzplan

An atlas of figure ground plans

Homepage of the Schwarzplan book

Schwarzpläne üben als Instrument der Stadtplanung eine enorme Faszination aus. Obwohl ​sie graphisch auf Flächensignaturen und die unbunten Farben schwarz und weiß reduziert sind, geben sie wie keine andere Darstellung Grundprinzipien einer Bebauungsstruktur wieder.

Schwarzpläne erlauben aufgrund der Beharrlichkeit von Bebauungsstrukturen Rückschlüsse auf die städtische Gesamtstruktur, Alter von Stadtteilen, Machtsysteme, gesellschaftspolitisch beeinflusste Bauprogramme, historische Entwicklungsschritte, Organisationsprinzipien im Sinne der Stadt als Organismus, Bebauungsdichte und vieles mehr.

Darüber hinaus vermittelt der Schwarzplan augenblicklich ein gesamt­heitliches Bild einer Stadt, während das Studium von Texten und Abbildungen mehr Zeit in Anspruch nimmt.

Die in diesem Buch dargestellten Pläne wurden aus Daten der Datenbank des OpenStreetMap Projekts (www.osm.org) erstellt. Dieses lässt sich mit wenigen Worten als eine Wikipedia für Landkarten beschreiben. Dessen Daten stehen unter der ODbL 1.0 jedem frei zur Verfügung.

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Map of Türkenschanzpark

A map made of free data made with free software

This map is the one featured in the Geohipster 2015 calendar. It is made with OpenStreetMap data. Its creation relied on OpenSource software. This demonstrates that it is not only important to use the right tool for the right job, but also to know your tools well.

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CouchWFS

A WFS inside a CouchDB

By making use of the built-in list capacity of every CouchDB, it is possible to implement a Web Feature Service (WFS) without the need to install any additional software.

The source code of a prototypical implementation can be found at the corresponding GitHub page. Close Project

Upper Austria Quiz

A Quiz about geographical features in Upper Austria

This is a prototypical hybrid Android game which can be downloaded at the OÖ Quiz on Google Play link. The questions are composed from OpenGovernmentData and OpenStreetMap data exclusively.

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Guide to the urban morphology of Linz

One of a series of analyses concerning morphological development of cities and regions

In order to gain comprehensive knowledge about the city of Linz, we have the possibility to study scientific literature, historic illustrations and maps. However, a considerable lack of explanation often remains. To generate profound explanations for the current urban shape, we can read the urban floor plan or the built figure of the city. By this method, deductions remain partially speculative. Nevertheless, the study of the city‘s spatial structures is indispensable in order to discover why cities appear as they appear. By analyzing recurring patterns, proven multi-causal correlations, and logical chains of arguments, it is possible to establish evidence. Urban morphologically relevant explanations can be found in diverse topics. Some of these topics can be found in all cities, whereas some of them are specific to certain cities. The city‘s regional context tells us the reason for the location of Linz, why it was founded there, and why it developed as it developed. Helpful topics are e.g. bodies of water, topography, historic road networks, climate, the cultural area, and geology. The development of mobility-networks, the spatial results of different building-cultures as mirror of their time, and power- structures, that became manifest in the built structures, play a decisive role concerning the entire urban structure. Specifically regarding Linz, important frameworks for further development were laid by the Maximilian fortification construction and by the impact of the National Socialists. Additionally, certain areas of the city are chosen for further analysis due to the high density of meanings explaining their shape and figure by different urban morphological topics and their effects over time: the area of the Babenberger urban expansion, the Main Square, the old town, Landstraße and Herrenstraße as most important streets in Linz, and the Danube riverside including Urfahr. This study manages to offer new, multifaceted explanations for the city‘s current form and for the essence of Linz, that extend the readers‘ perspective, supplementing common scientific literature.

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Monopoly Attersee

A regional adaption of the famous board game

Similar to the famous board game, a prototypical adaption was created. This deals with the beautiful region of Attersee in Upper Austria.

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