“Urban Acupuncture” based on digital technology

The essence of “Urban Acupuncture” is to develop the method of small-scale urban regeneration to a key sinew of improving the overall urban environmental quality. Through interfering with some very districts, and motivating the potentials, the districts can get a new life and boom, which will make positive effects on lager urban areas. The implement of “Urban Acupuncture” depends on the right selection of mediums, positions and methods. “Urban Acupuncture” based on the medium of “Public Centers” is not just small-scale and incremental in the process of regeneration, it can also create attractive public places to enhance the sense of belonging of the citizens and accelerate the development of urban society and economy. The methods of “Urban Acupuncture” supported by digital technology try to make full use and integrate the technical means such as data record, analysis, transmission, image orientation, Automatic generation provided by GIS (geographical information system), APRS (aerial photography and remote sensing technology), SDM (spatial data mining technique) and VR (virtual reality technology), to get and analyze the accurate data of urban space, and finally ascertain the numbers, positions, scales, shapes and characters of public centers on different levels of urban built environment in a scientific and rational way.