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We present a design support tool which generates outlines of urban projects targeting user-defined walkability objectives. The tool is part of our ongoing research effort to develop not only evaluative, but also generative tools, to be used during the design process, assisting architects and urban planners in designing more walkability of cities. The tool couples the capability-wise walkability score (CAWS) evaluation method with the NSGA-II multi-objective genetic algorithm, to generate a set of non-dominated solutions whose properties and expected effects can be explored within the software tool.
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Blecic, I., Cecchini, A., Trunfio, G.A. (2017). Computer-Aided Drafting of Urban Designs for Walkability. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10407. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62401-3_51
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