Interactive Websites
The City Design Center’s interactive website program utilizes the Internet to communicate state-of-the-art design
information to improve the urban built environment. These interactive
websites show new ways to communicate, teach, and research visual,
textual, and statistical information. For instance, a click on a base
map can yield visual images - photographs of buildings, areas and street
level photographs, building plans, sections, and elevations; or it can
show various scale maps and text-based and quantitative information -
surveys of historic and landmark buildings, census data, land use data,
and parcel and property information; or a click can activate a search
mechanism that allows people to access information on various aspects
of a building such as the developer, architect, location, building type,
construction practices, financing, and so on.
The center’s interactive website program is being developed through
the collaboration of faculty and staff of the College of Architecture
and the Arts, the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, and the
UIC Library. It provides critical information about the built environment
to facilitate more inclusive and informed design decision-making.
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Projects:
Wilmette Historic Preservation Commission
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