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Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures

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Overview

  • Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the availability and application of planning support systems (PSS) in the context of Smart Cities, Big Data, and Urban Futures
  • Presents the best papers from the CUPUM-2017 conference
  • Offers insights into the specifics of availability and application of planning support systems (PSS) to help achieve smart urban futures
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)

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Conference proceedings info: CUPUM 2017.

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Planning Support Science

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About this book

This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.

It provides a state-of-the-art overview of the availability and application of planning support systems (PSS) in the context of smart cities, big data, and urban futures. Rapid advances in computing, information, communication and web-based technologies are reaching into all facets of urban life, creating new and exciting urban futures. With the universal adoption of networked computing technologies, data generation is now so massive and all pervasive in society that it offers unprecedented technological solutions for planning and managing urban futures. These technologies are essential to effective urban planning and urban management in an increasingly challenging world, with socially disruptive changes, more complex and sophisticated urban lives and the need for resilience to deal with the possibility of adverse future environmental events and climate change.

The book discusses examples of these technologies which encompass, inter alia: ‘smart urban futures’, where cities with myriad sensors are networked with communication technologies that enable the city planners to monitor well-being and be responsive to citizens' needs to allow dynamic management in real-time; PSS that encompass new hardware, develop new indicators, applications and innovative ways of facilitating public and community involvement in the management and planning of urban areas; and urban modelling that draws on theory and the richness of data from the growing range of urban sensing and communication technologies to build a better understanding of urban dynamics, trends and 'what-if' scenario investigations, and to provide better tools for planning and policymaking.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Stan Geertman

  • School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Andrew Allan

  • UNSW Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Chris Pettit

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

    John Stillwell

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