Architecture and Vacancy. Empirical maps to read economic phenomena in contemporary cities

• Autores: Elena Pressacco
• Localización: EURAU18 Alicante: Retroactive Research: Congress Proceedings / coord. por Javier Sánchez Merina, 2018, ISBN 978-84-1302-003-7, págs. 289-294
• Idioma: español
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  • The city evolves thanks to many forces, leading it to morphological modifications in the urban structure. These phenomena deposit signs, not always easily traceable. The presence of vacancy within the urban fabric is one of these. The distribution of vacant units, could be a useful indicator to comprehend economic conditions and territorial practices in a city system. The growing attention on data visualization and big data mapping to describe its evolution is giving us many possibilities in terms of dynamism and layering. The new technological possibilities, the mapping’s tradition, typical of urban form, and the elasticity of architecture can improve the categories used in urban economics subjects, being helpful in better understand a so complex phenomenon.