Urban transformation scenarios for the representation and dynamic control of new design interventions

Today an absolutely emerging issue for architectural culture is the need for up-to-date representations of urban settings by 3D models, got from reality and characterizing the actual condition of ongoing transformations. These representations could become the urban scenarios for simulations and checks both of master plans and architectural designs in their relationships with the built environment. Some new tools of urban procedural modeling and web resources allow generating urban contexts that can interoperate with software oriented to BIM and concept design. In this paper we will compare on one hand the knowledge and informative capabilities of different new technologies for urban modeling, on the other the opportunities (i.e. about shape control, standards verification, energy calculation) offered by interoperability with other software dedicated to architectural design.