Aurel von Richthofen


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von Richthofen

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Aurel

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0000-0002-8712-1301

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  • Automated Semantic SWOT Analysis for City Planning Targets
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Grisiute, Ayda; Shi, Zhongming; Chadzynski, Arkadiusz; et al. (2022)
    CAADRIA ~ POST-CARBON – Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference
    Singapore’s urban planning and management is cross-domain in nature and need to be assessed using multi-domain indicators — such as SDGs. However, urban planning processes are often confronted with data interoperability issues. In this paper, we demonstrate how a Semantic Web Technology-based approach combined with a SWOT analysis framework can be used to develop an architecture for automated multi-domain evaluations of SDG-related planning targets. This paper describes an automated process of storing heterogeneous data in a semantic data store, deriving planning metrics and integrating a SWOT framework for the multi-domain evaluation of on-site solar energy potential across plots in Singapore. Our goal is to form the basis for a more comprehensive planning support tool that is based on a reciprocal relationship between innovations in SWT and a versatile SWOT framework. The presented approach has many potential applications beyond the presented energy potential evaluation.
  • Is the Smart Circular City emerging? Mapping policies and initiatives in 12 cities
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Unno, Genki; von Richthofen, Aurel; Herthogs, Pieter (2023)
    AMPS Proceedings Series ~ New York - Livable Cities
  • Constructing Sand
    Item type: Journal Article
    von Richthofen, Aurel; Hebel, Dirk E. (2015)
    FCL Magazine Special Issue
  • BodenSchätzeWerte - Alternative Building Materials
    Item type: Other Publication
    Hebel, Dirk E.; Heisel, Felix; von Richthofen, Aurel (2015)
  • Editorial
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Nebel, Sonja; von Richthofen, Aurel (2016)
    Habitat - International: Schriften zur internationalen Stadtentwicklung ~ Urban Oman : Trends and Perspectives of Urbanisation in Muscat Capital Area
  • Urban Oman Exhibition Panel 2 - Introduction Dynamic of Growth
    Item type: Other Publication
    von Richthofen, Aurel; Nebel, Sonja; Eaton, Anne (2014)
  • Urban Sustainability as a Political Instrument in the Gulf Region exemplified at Projects in Abu Dhabi
    Item type: Journal Article
    Cummings, Veronika; von Richthofen, Aurel (2017)
    Die Erde
    The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are highly urbanised. The urban areas in the Gulf are nation- ally and internationally the focal point of economic development and political attention. Gulf cities are under rapid transformation and spaces of social, economic, ecological and political conflicts. While such dynamics gave rise to a differentiated debate on the political and social dimensions of urban sustainability in post- industrialised countries elsewhere, the narrative differs radically for the Gulf region. Urban sustainability in the Gulf will be discussed in this paper along three case-studies from Abu Dhabi that relate to the terminologi- cal and practical inception, adoption and transformation of the concept: The selected examples are modern residential neighbourhoods, the Abu Dhabi Vision 2030, and the eco-city model of Masdar. In combination with the general urban planning history of the city, these projects allow to trace the concept of urban sustainability in time and to understand its adoption into the Arabic language and the interrelations of the term to the Gulf regions’ specific political, ideological, and socio-cultural structures. Based on the works of Gunder (2006), Davidson (2010) and Brown (2016) the case studies reflect the concept of sustainability reduced to ‘sustain- able development’. As such, it is becoming an ‘empty signifier’ that can be applied or instrumentalised by the ruling elites. This paper argues that the concept of urban sustainability in the Gulf is a foreign ‘import’ that serves in situ as a political instrument controlled by the ruling elites to stabilise the existing hegemonic power structures and to legitimise the political order.
  • A Semantic Spatial Policy Model to Automatically Calculate Allowable Gross Floor Areas in Singapore
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Grisiute, Ayda; Silvennoinen, Heidi; Li, Shiying; et al. (2023)
    Communications in Computer and Information Science ~ Computer-Aided Architectural Design. INTERCONNECTIONS: Co-computing Beyond Boundaries
    Urban data analytics is helping to shape current and future cities, but the process of generating urban analytical indicators is often difficult to scale and automate. For instance, planners determine allowable Gross Floor Area (GFA) on a plot by manually cross-referencing multi-domain policies. As allowable GFA governs potential future developments, it is imperative to quantify and understand its values city-wide. This paper presents the first steps of a research effort to develop an automated semantic spatial policy model to estimate allowable GFA for plots in Singapore. We use ontologies and Knowledge Graph (KG) platforms to address regulatory data interoperability and automation challenges. We filtered regulation concepts that determine buildable area and volume at Level of Detail 1 (LoD1) and standardised these concepts across different regulatory sources. Then, we modelled concept-related policies and automated the generation of possible GFA values per plot. Finally, we developed an ontology to store these values in a dynamic geospatial KG. Our approach presents two key benefits: 1) a generated dataset of allowable GFA eliminates the need for manual calculation by field experts, and 2) a graph data structure is ideally suited for unstructured regulatory data, like planning regulations. We conclude that semantic spatial policy models improve the interoperability between multi-domain regulatory data and plan to generate a dataset for the entire Singapore as well as integrate regulatory data for mixed-use plots.
  • No urban desert! Emergence and transformation of extended urban landscapes in Oman
    Item type: Book Chapter
    von Richthofen, Aurel (2016)
    Ruralism - The Future of Villages and Small Towns in an Urbanizing World
  • Parameters of urban expansion in Oman
    Item type: Book Chapter
    von Richthofen, Aurel (2016)
    Habitat - International: Schriften zur internationalen Stadtentwicklung ~ Urban Oman : Trends and Perspectives of Urbanisation in Muscat Capital Area
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