Nature

A tiled multi-city urban objects dataset for city-scale building energy simulation

City-scale building energy simulation provides a significant reference for planning and urban management. However, large-scale building energy simulation is often unfeasible due to the huge amount of ...
SFChronicle

A wooden replica of S.F., the size of an apartment, could find a permanent home in the city

In a warehouse in the East Bay sits a nearly century-old miniature wooden replica of the entire city of San Francisco. The size of an apartment, it precisely represents every structure and space in ...
Nature

GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS) for city- and street- scale urban simulations: Development and first applications

We introduce University of Texas - GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS), a dataset providing building heights and urban canopy parameters (UCPs) for more than 1200 city or locales ...
The New York Times

The Artists Remaking Everyday Buildings in Dollhouse Scale

Miniaturists are memorializing the architecture of quickly changing cities with meticulous renderings of corner stores, restaurants and even dumpsters. From left: a Brooklyn dumpster (five inches tall ...