New era for architectural design, civil engineering and urban planning

The span of this issue covers some examples and discussions of sciences and technologies for the intelligent and reliable perception, study and use of cultural heritage that we called Augmented Heritage (AH). Being involved in a AH problematic, will imply using and adapting the hottest technologies (existing or emerging) that will enable researchers and users of cultural heritage issues to explore `real-virtual¿ information in real-time. Moreover, we claim that Augmented Heritage is an ICT challenge. AH is a powerful and innovative learning environment in the study, presentation and understanding of cultural heritage ascertained through multi-sensory ways of technology-enhanced AH.