PROPOSAL OF MUSE AND ITS ROLE IN THE FIELD OF URBAN DESIGN

Abstract

In this study the method of urban safety analysis and environmental design named "MUSE" is proposed from the viewpoint of disaster-mitigation toward the twenty-first century. Modeling a city as an organic and closed system by classifying the urban space into 8 elements and visualizing the aspect of the city, MUSE analyzes and simulates the city from each element or mutual relations between elements. This paper further shows the role of MUSE in the field of urban design. MUSE is expected to be used for the recognition of cities together with new information tools e. g., GIS, GPS, and mobile computer.