2008 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 37-47
Charrette, a French word, describes an intense work session that includes analysis of a focused area and proposals for future designs of the area. It is becoming a popular method also in the urban design field in Japan. Particularly, GIS seems to be useful for charrettes: it can provide vital information efficiently to the charrette participants. Therefore, the authors held a charrette using GIS, in this study, for investigating its effectiveness and discovering problems. Results show that GIS is effective in the design process. However, some future challenges were also revealed. At the next step of this research, we will develop an urban design charrette support system using GIS.
