Planning Support Systems in Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Planning Support Systems: An Introduction

      • Stan Geertman, John Stillwell

      Pages 3-22

3. Systems and Technologies for Enhancing Participation in the Planning Process

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Interactive Support Systems for Participatory Planning

      • Stan Geertman, John Stillwell

      Pages 25-44

   3. Public Participation via On-line Democracy

      • Richard Kingston, Andrew Evans, Steve Carver

      Pages 45-64

   4. Web-based Tools and Interfaces for Participatory Planning and Design

      • Kheir Al-Kodmany

      Pages 65-85

   5. Community Engagement in Land Use Planning Through Web-based Technologies

      • Steve Ventura, Tracy Miller, Glen Barry

      Pages 87-98

   6. Tools for Community Design and Decision-making

      • Ken Snyder

      Pages 99-120

4. Tools for Supporting the Planning Process

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. The Planner’s TOOLBOX: A Web-based Support System for Sustainable Development

      • Jukka Mikkonen, Mika Ristimäki, Kari Oinonen, Henning Sten Hansen

      Pages 123-137

   3. STEPP: A Strategic Tool for Integrating Environmental Aspects into Planning Procedures

      • Gerrit J. Carsjens, Ron J. A. van Lammeren, Arend Ligtenberg

      Pages 139-154

   4. Flowmap: A Support Tool for Strategic Network Analysis

      • Stan Geertman, Tom de Jong, Coen Wessels

      Pages 155-175

   5. Geovisualisation for Planning Support Systems

      • Bin Jiang, Bo Huang, Vit Vasek

      Pages 177-191

   6. Key to Virtual Insight: A 3D GIS and Virtual Reality System

      • Gert van Maren

      Pages 193-204

   7. Cellular Automata and Multi-agent Systems as Planning Support Tools

      • Paul M. Torrens

      Pages 205-222

   8. The Application of Case-based Reasoning in Development Control

      • Anthony Yeh, Xun Shi

      Pages 223-248

   9. Fuzzy Algorithms to Support Spatial Planning

      • Dmitry Kurtener, Vladimir Badenko

      Pages 249-265

5. Support Systems for Strategic Planning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267

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   2. A Migration Modelling System to Support Government Decision-making

      • Tony Champion, Glen Bramley, Stewart Fotheringham, James Macgill, Philip Rees

      Pages 269-290

Planning Support Systems: Technologies that are Driving Planning Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC 1 E 6BT, United Kingdom I had always thought the term 'Planning Support Systems', abbreviated to PSS, had been coined by the father of land use modelling, Britton Harris, in his article 'Beyond Geographic Information Systems: computers and the planning professional' published in the Journal of the American Planning Association in 1989 (Harris 1989). Until I asked hirn, that iso In a response to a paper he gave to the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) in the summer of 1987, he told me that someone in the audience who he cannot quite remember, actually coined the term, referring to 'planning support systems' as that constellation of digital techniques (such as GIS) which were emerging to support the planning process. In fact, the predecessor term 'decision support systems' (DSS) from which this unknown originator obviously defined PSS by analogy, was coined as far back as the late 1970s in the management literature for a loose assemblage of techniques, usually computer-based, which aided management decisions. The term slowly entered the geographicallexicon as 'spatial decision support systems' (SDSS) and this is probably first attributable to Lew Hopkins and Mark Armstrong who used it in a paper published in AutoCarto 7 in 1985 (Hopkins and Armstrong 1985).

• GIS
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Internet
• Monitoring
• Technologie
• Urban and Regional Planning
• development
• environment
• fuzzy
• information system
• network
• network analysis
• planning
• sustainable development
• transport
• landscape/regional and urban planning

From the reviews:

"This volume provides the first worldwide overview of Planning Support Systems (PSS) and of their application in practice. … It provides an Internet-based worldwide inventory of innovative examples and successful applications of PSS in a number of different planning contexts. In depth insight into the purposes, content, workings, and applications of a very wide diversity of PSS is given. References to URLs where additional information can be obtained are very useful." (Planning Studies Centre, December, 2004)

• Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Stan Geertman

• School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  John Stillwell

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