Sketching the city: a GIS-based approach

The use of municipal administrative data for performing urban design tasks is explored. The author describes a research project that uses geographic data, GIS-based algorithms, and mapping techniques to generate sketch plans. The nodes described by Kevin Lynch in 1960 in his book <i>The Image of the City </i>are generated. As well as the fact that the analysis is computer based the data used in the study were intentionally chosen to support further research into the suitability of a distributed GIS analysis model.