Rather than dictating uses for neighbourhoods, as almost all American cities do—apartments here, light industry over there Mesa's planners will determine the appearance of buildings.
Instead of simply reproducing the external appearance of buildings located some blocks away, the building now extrudes the geometry of its location into three dimensions.
It has done so by working with management to make repairs, improve lighting, modify areas where intruders could hide, and improve the appearance of buildings.
The report calls for cooperative initiatives, such as a business improvement district; prizes for best-kept properties; and strict enforcement of town codes involving the appearance of buildings.
The ML algorithm trained with aggregate perception of thousands of online users from a crowdsourced game computes Streetchange, a metric for the change in appearance of buildings and streets between two images of the same location captured several years apart.
There has been a suspicion that Livingstone has cared too little about the appearance of buildings and has been overly persuaded by developers' claims of the economic or social benefits that they will bring.
