Planning Support Systems for Sustainable Urban Development

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction to ‘Planning Support Systems for Sustainable Urban Development’....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
What-Ifs, If-Whats and Maybes: Sketch of Ubiquitous Collaborative Decision Support Technology....Pages 19-29
A Model of Land Use Change in City Areas Based on the Conversion of Unit Lots....Pages 31-49
Simulating the Dynamics Between the Development of Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure: An Agent-Based Model....Pages 51-72
LACONISS: A Planning Support System for Land Consolidation....Pages 73-90
Qualitative and Quantitative Comparisons of Agent-Based and Cell-Based Synthesis Estimation Methods of Base-Year Data for Land-Use Microsimulations....Pages 91-106
Application of Land Use Model Combined with GIS and RS Technology in Supporting Urban Spatial Planning....Pages 107-125
Planning Support Systems for Fiscally Sustainable Planning....Pages 127-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Generalisation of Planning Data as a Contribution to Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA): The Example of a City-Wide Biotope-Type Assessment for Berlin....Pages 151-165
Using MapTable ® to Learn About Sustainable Urban Development....Pages 167-186
Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructure and the Role of Planning Support Systems....Pages 187-207
Urban CO 2 Planning: A Decision Support System....Pages 209-224
A GIS-Based Performance Metrics for Designing a Low Energy Urban Agriculture System....Pages 225-247
A Comprehensive Review of Existing Urban Energy Models in the Built Environment....Pages 249-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
A Procedure Using GIS to Analyze the Access by Non-Motorized Transport to Transit Stations....Pages 269-280
Locations with Frequent Pedestrian-Vehicle Collisions: Their Transportation and Neighborhood Environment Characteristics in Seattle and King County, Washington....Pages 281-296
A Computer-Aided Approach for Planning Sustainable Trips to Large Trip Generators: The Case of Cycling Routes Serving University Campuses....Pages 297-308
Walk Route: A New Methodology to Find the Optimal Walking Route in the City of Atlanta....Pages 309-325
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Access to UK Census Data for Spatial Analysis: Towards an Integrated Census Support Service....Pages 329-348
The Online What if? Planning Support System....Pages 349-362
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
A Web-Based Fuzzy CA Model for Urban Growth Simulation....Pages 363-373
Flexible Geospatial Platform for Distributed and Collaborative Urban Modelling....Pages 375-394
The Participatory Cube: A Framework for Analysis of Online Participation Platforms....Pages 395-414
Front Matter....Pages 415-415
Application of Socio-Technical Research Methods in Understanding the Genesis and Potential Sustainability of Planning Support Systems....Pages 417-432
Governance Approaches in the Regeneration of Immigrant Communities: Potential Roles of Planning Support Systems (PSS)....Pages 433-449
Supporting Planning Processes by the Use of Dynamic Visualisation....Pages 451-467
Beauty and Brains: Integrating Easy Spatial Design and Advanced Urban Sustainability Models....Pages 469-484