Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning

Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning

Carlos Nunes Silva

Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 380

ISBN13: 9781466681507|ISBN10: 1466681500|EISBN13: 9781466681514

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8150-7

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Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. These innovations have led to new opportunities in this evolving profession.

Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning brings together the efficiency of web-based tools and digital technologies with the practice of spatial planning. Focusing on the utilization of geographic information systems, computer-assisted design, visualization concepts, and database management systems, this book is a pivotal reference source for planners, policymakers, researchers, and graduate students interested in how recent technological advancements are enhancing the traditional practices in urban planning.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering (ACIE) Book Series

Preface

Chapters

The Role of Web 2.0 in Urban E-Planning

Chapter 1

Smart Planning: The Potential of Web 2.0 for Enhancing Collective Intelligence in Urban Planning (pages 1-32)

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko

This chapter discusses the ability of new technologies to support collective intelligence. The technology trend brought into the spotlight is Web 2.0 because it has a great potential to contribute to the refined understanding of...

Chapter 2

There's an App for That: Mobile Applications That Advance Urban Planning (pages 33-45)

Jennifer S. Evans-Cowley, Brittany Kubinski

The number of worldwide mobile device users is increasing rapidly, as are the number of applications to serve these devices. Urban planners have the opportunity to use a wide array of mobile applications to increase productivity...

Chapter 3

Participatory Environmental Planning Platform (pages 46-68)

Soon Ae Chun, Francisco Artigas

Natural and man-made disasters can pose various threats to the environment and humans. Proper environmental monitoring, early alerts, and response planning and execution are essential. Most government organizations adhere to top-down...

Chapter 4

Socio-Technical Systems on the Move: Some Insights for Policy Activity (pages 69-91)

Sylvie Occelli

Because of the advancements in Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), and notably the increased spreading of Web 2.0 Internet-based services and mobile computing, an increasingly information-rich environment is made...

Web-Based E-Tools, Urban Social Movements, and Public Space

Chapter 5

The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Rise of Urban Social Movements in Poland (pages 93-113)

Maja Grabkowska, Łukasz Pancewicz, Iwona Sagan

The chapter examines the relationship between the use of Information and Communications Technology (ITC) and the emergence of social movements focused on urban agenda in Poland. The aim is to investigate how and to what extent a...

Chapter 6

Smart Urbanism and Digital Activism in Southern Italy (pages 114-140)

Arturo Di Bella

This chapter debates the competing approaches of the smart city model. It starts by critically discussing top-down approaches, focusing on influence of neoliberal urban experimentation, the role of dominant social interests, the...

Chapter 7

Planning for Urban Media: Large Public Screens and Urban Communication (pages 141-164)

Scott McQuire, Nikos Papastergiadis, Frank Vetere, Martin R. Gibbs, John Downs, Sonja Pedell

Large video screens situated in public spaces are characteristic of the highly mediated public environment of contemporary cities. While screens are now able to support a range of content, including interactive applications, urban...

Modelling, Virtual Reality, and Geovisualization

Chapter 8

Multi-Scale 3D Geovisualization of Urban Heat Island Data for Planning Dialogue in Toronto (pages 166-187)

John Danahy, Jacob Mitchell, Robert Wright, Rodney Hoinkes, Rob Feick

This e-planning visualization case study in the Toronto region investigated the use of 3D urban models as a visualization reference against which analytical models were visualized to identify micro-scale mitigation scenarios of urban...

Chapter 9

Indicator Modelling and Interactive Visualisation for Urban Sustainability Assessment (pages 188-209)

Ruth E. Falconer, John P. Isaacs, Daniel Gilmour, David J. Blackwood

This chapter presents a novel framework for the integration of the principles of sustainable development within the urban design processes. The framework recognises that decision making for sustainable urban planning is a challenging...

Chapter 10

Urban Planning and Climate Change Mitigation: Using Virtual Reality to Support the Design of a University Master Plan Extension (pages 210-229)

Amar Bennadji, Richard Laing, David Gray

The aim of the research described in this chapter is to explore the use of intelligent virtual transport modelling within the context of a case study involving the development of a university estate. Through the application of...

Chapter 11

Sequential Experiences in Energy Producing Landscapes (pages 230-251)

Ian D. Bishop

Wind turbines are a major presence in the landscapes of some countries. This presence will become more widespread across the world as the need to reduce coal dependence becomes more broadly accepted. This chapter uses the situation...

Chapter 12

A Unified Building Model for a Real 3D Cadastral System (pages 252-279)

Mohamed El-Mekawy, Anders Östman

Cadastral systems today are mostly based on digitally represented 2D parcel maps or land registries of 3D components referenced to different documents. With clear limitations to this method, this chapter focuses on creating 3D...

The Role of Planners in Urban E-Planning Reforms in Developed Countries and the Challenges Confronting Urban E-Planning in Developing Countries

Chapter 13

Planning Reform as a Catalyst to Advance E-Planning (pages 281-305)

Wayne Williamson, Paul McFarland

The limited research on e-Planning in Australia, a perceived slow take up of e-Planning in the New South Wales (NSW), planning system and the release of a set of e-Planning recommendations as part of planning reform packages in 2007...

Chapter 14

E-Governance in Africa and the Challenges Confronting Urban E-Planning: Lusophone African Countries (pages 306-328)

Carlos Nunes Silva

This chapter explores trends in the development of e-governance in Africa, issues, challenges, opportunities, and innovative practices, as well as the impacts that such process is likely to have in the progress of Urban e-Planning in...

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