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Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods

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Editors:
  1. Stan Geertman

    1. Fac. Geosciences, Utrecht University, TC Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  2. John Stillwell

    1. School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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  • Prime focus on support for actual planning practice
  • Pays particular attention to the support role of the systems
  • Takes a demand side perspective (real world applications) on planning support
  • Describes new and innovative developments
  • Covers support systems for a wide variety of types/forms of planning

Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 95)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Part 0

    1. Planning Support Systems: Content, Issues and Trends

      • Stan Geertman, John Stillwell
      Pages 1-26

  3. Application and Assessment of Existing PSS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. A Use-Driven Approach to Large-Scale Urban Modelling and Planning Support

      • Brian Deal, Varkki Pallathucheril
      Pages 29-51

    3. Future Land-use in The Netherlands: Evaluation of the National Spatial Strategy

      • Ton C. M. de Nijs
      Pages 53-67

    4. A Planning Support System Toolkit Approach for Formulating and Evaluating Land-use Change Scenarios

      • Christopher J. Pettit, Ray Wyatt
      Pages 69-90

  4. Design, Development and Implementation of Recent PSS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. A Motor Vehicle Safety Planning Support System: The Houston Experience

      • Ned Levine
      Pages 93-111

    3. Elbe DSS: A Planning Support System for Strategic River Basin Planning

      • Bernhard M. Hahn, Sebastian Kofalk, Jean-luc De Kok, Jürgen Berlekamp, Mariele Evers
      Pages 113-136

    4. The Emission Inventory Water: A Planning Support System for Reducing Pollution Emissions in the Surface Waters of Flanders

      • Leen Van Esch, Greta Vos, Liliane Janssen, Guy Engelen
      Pages 137-157

    5. An Integrated Discussion Support System for New Dutch Flood Risk Management Strategies

      • Noor van der Hoeven, Jeroen Aerts, Hanneke van der Klis, Eric Koomen
      Pages 159-174

    6. A Spatial Planning Support System for Managing Bangalore's Urban Sprawl

      • H. S. Sudhira, T. V. Ramachandra
      Pages 175-190

    7. GRAS: A Spatial Decision Support System for Green Space Planning

      • Claudia Pelizaro, Theo Arentze, Harry Timmermans
      Pages 191-208

  5. New Methods for Planning Support

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Agent-Based Modelling: A Dynamic Scenario Planning Approach to Tourism PSS

      • Peter A. Johnson, Renee Sieber
      Pages 211-226

    3. Google Maps Mashups for Local Public Health Service Planning

      • Maurizio Gibin, Pablo Mateos, Jakob Petersen, Phil Atkinson
      Pages 227-242

    4. ArcGIS Processing Models for Regional Environmental Planning in Bavaria

      • Jörg Schaller, Thomas Gehrke, Nathan Strout
      Pages 243-264

    5. Geo-Information Technologies in Support of Environmental and Landscape Planning

      • Mariolina Besio, Nadia Quadrelli
      Pages 265-292

  6. Participation and Collaboration in PSS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293
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    2. Enhancing Comprehensive Planning with Public Engagement and Planning Support Integration

      • Scott N. Lieske, Steve Mullen, Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck
      Pages 295-315
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Planning Support Systems: Retrospect and Prospect It has been nearly twenty years since the term ‘planning support systems’ (PSS) first appeared in an article by Britton Harris (Harris 1989) and more than ten years since the concept was more broadly introduced in the academic literature (Harris and Batty 1993; Batty 1995; Klosterman 1997). As a result, the publication of a new book on PSS provides an excellent opportunity to assess past progress in the field and speculate on future developments. PSS have clearly become very popular in the academic world. This is the fourth edited book devoted to the topic following Brail and Klosterman (2001), Geertman and Stillwell (2003), and a third by Brail (2008). Papers devoted to PSS have been published in the leading planning journals and the topic has become a regular theme at academic conferences around the world; it has even spawned intellectual o- spring such as spatial planning and decision support systems (SPDSS) and public participationplanning support systems (PP-PSS). However, as Geertman and Stillwell point out in their introductory chapter, the experience with PSS in the world of professional practice has been disappointing. A substantial number of PSS have been developed but most of them are academic p- totypes or ‘one off’ professional applications that have not been adopted elsewhere.

Reviews

“A superb addition to the literature on planning support systems (PSS). This book is a “must read” for the urban planning researcher or practitioner who wants to keep current in this rapidly evolving field.” Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, volume 3, issue 1, 2011.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fac. Geosciences, Utrecht University, TC Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Stan Geertman

  • School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    John Stillwell

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