Landscape design or parameterization? Recent tendencies in geo-technologies for representing and planning urban territory

The text discusses the state-of-the-art of GIS Technologies in planning and management processes of urban and architectural spaces. It presents latest's evolution in GIS methodology and applications, discussing how these resources have changed our way of representing and projecting the territory. It announces the arrival of a new logic on territorial representation, among which is azimuth visualization, considering mental maps, and the process of Parameterization. It points out tendencies and values, such as being inter-operational, creating interpretative portraits for reality, producing simulated sceneries, investing in visualization on decision making, fully employing geo-technologies. It defends that there is a new paradigm on territorial planning: the Parametric Modeling of Territorial Occupation.