scholarly journals Communication-Oriented and Process-Sensitive Planning Support

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aija Staffans ◽  
Maarit Kahila-Tani ◽  
Stan Geertman ◽  
Pihla Sillanpää ◽  
Liisa Horelli
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Support System ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Planning Support System ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Collaborative Small Groups

The complexity of the planning context has raised criticism against public participation for being a rigid top-down endeavour which does not recognize the different communicative needs and necessary working modes in the engagement of broad publics and collaborative small groups. Consequently, the problem is how to improve public participation so that it becomes more sensitive to the variety of communicative activities and knowledge needs involved in the design of urban planning processes. The aim of the article is to present and discuss, on the basis of two small case studies in the Finnish context, a revised model for a process-sensitive planning support system (PSS), with examples of several digital tools. The authors argue that besides broad public participation, more collaboration is needed to converge the diverse knowledge of planning in two-way communication and co-working settings which enable the analysis and design of living environments.

scholarly journals Enhancing Sustainability and Resilience through Multi-Level Infrastructure Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Salas ◽  
Víctor Yepes
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Support System ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Planning Support System ◽  
Multi Level

Resilient planning demands not only resilient actions, but also resilient implementation, which promotes adaptive capacity for the attainment of the planned objectives. This requires, in the case of multi-level infrastructure systems, the simultaneous pursuit of bottom-up infrastructure planning for the promotion of adaptive capacity, and of top-down approaches for the achievement of global objectives and the reduction of structural vulnerabilities and imbalances. Though several authors have pointed out the need to balance bottom-up flexibility with top-down hierarchical control for better plan implementation, very few methods have yet been developed with this aim, least of all with a multi-objective perspective. This work addressed this lack by including, for the first time, the mitigation of urban vulnerability, the improvement of road network condition, and the minimization of the economic cost as objectives in a resilient planning process in which both actions and their implementation are planned for a controlled, sustainable development. Building on Urban planning support system (UPSS), a previously developed planning tool, the improved planning support system affords a planning alternative over the Spanish road network, with the best multi-objective balance between optimization, risk, and opportunity. The planning process then formalizes local adaptive capacity as the capacity to vary the selected planning alternative within certain limits, and global risk control as the duties that should be achieved in exchange. Finally, by means of multi-objective optimization, the method reveals the multi-objective trade-offs between local opportunity, global risk, and rights and duties at local scale, thus providing deeper understanding for better informed decision-making.

Development of a flow-based planning support system based on open data for the City of Atlanta

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-224
Author(s):  
Ge Zhang ◽  
Wenwen Zhang ◽  
Subhrajit Guhathakurta ◽  
Nisha Botchwey
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Community Planning ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Planning Support System ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The City

Open data have come of age with many cities, states, and other jurisdictions joining the open data movement by offering relevant information about their communities for free and easy access to the public. Despite the growing volume of open data, their use has been limited in planning scholarship and practice. The bottleneck is often the format in which the data are available and the organization of such data, which may be difficult to incorporate in existing analytical tools. The overall goal of this research is to develop an open data-based community planning support system that can collect related open data, analyze the data for specific objectives, and visualize the results to improve usability. To accomplish this goal, this study undertakes three research tasks. First, it describes the current state of open data analysis efforts in the community planning field. Second, it examines the challenges analysts experience when using open data in planning analysis. Third, it develops a new flow-based planning support system for examining neighborhood quality of life and health for the City of Atlanta as a prototype, which addresses many of these open data challenges.

scholarly journals Development of Planning Support System for Urban Rehabilitation and Reconstruction

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 422-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takaaki Kato ◽  
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Itsuki Nakabayashi ◽  
Taro Ichiko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Support System ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Disaster Planning ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Planning Support System ◽  
Post Disaster

The past post-disaster recovery process had many difficulties in planning. The importance of residents participatory urban planning is true of post-disaster planning and ordinary planning; however, there are difficult problems as follows: time-scale conflict between desire of affected households for swift recovery of their individual lives and enough consideration of urban planning to avoid speed-before-quality planning, unsmooth discussion and consensus building because of mutual conflict of their interest in the residents, and a shortage of professionals in the case that an earthquake disaster hits wide and high-density urbanized region. The concept of "pre-disaster planning" has been propounded as measures to deal with these serious situations after 1995 Hyogo-ken Nambu Earthquake in Japan. Actual measures including "neighborhood community-training program for post-disaster recovery" of Tokyo Metropolitan have been implemented in various approaches. This study has pioneering approach in this context. We focus on planning support technologies based on a geographic information system (GIS) and establish planning support system for post-disaster community-based urban planning, which will smooth discussion and increase efficiency of planning work. An introduction of the system will result in reduction of total time needed on the planning process and supplement of professionals. Though there are some problems that we identified, they will be solved in accumulated experiences such as the training program in the near future.

The Online What if? Planning Support System

2013 ◽  
pp. 349-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Pettit ◽  
Richard E. Klosterman ◽  
Marcos Nino-Ruiz ◽  
Ivo Widjaja ◽  
Patrizia Russo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Planning Support System
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