The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Editors’ Introduction

   1. Editors’ Introduction

      • Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, Marco Keiner, Gustav Nussbaumer

      Pages 1-19

3. The Real World of Spatial Planning

   1. Spatial Planning in the Twenty-First Century: Continuing or Ceasing?

      • Willy A. Schmid, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, Marco Keiner

      Pages 21-29

   2. Venice, Venice, and Venice: Three Realities of the European City

      • Klaus R. Kunzmann

      Pages 31-41

   3. Sustainable Development and Urban Management in Developing Countries: The Case of Africa

      • Marco Keiner

      Pages 43-59

   4. Indicator Sets on City and Cantonal Levels in Switzerland: Tools for Sustainable Development

      • Barbara Schultz, Marco Keiner

      Pages 61-70

   5. Implementing Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of Kunming, China

      • Jacques P. Feiner

      Pages 71-84

   6. Transforming Cityspace

      • Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr

      Pages 85-110

   7. City of Regions: Improving Territorial Governance in the Zurich’s “Glattal-Stadt”

      • Alain Thierstein, Thomas Held, Simone Gabi

      Pages 111-125

   8. Increasing Resistance to Political Consulting

      • Martin Lendi

      Pages 127-138

   9. Evaluation and Decision Support Systems in Multiple Land Use Planning: The Dutch Case

      • Hubert N. Van Lier

      Pages 139-156

4. The Virtual World of Spatial Planning

   1. Dynamic Immersive Visualization: Negotiating Landscape Images

      • John W. Danahy

      Pages 157-171

   2. Behavioral Monitoring in Virtual Environments: A Basis for Agent Modeling in Urban Parks

      • Ian D. Bishop

      Pages 173-183

   3. Assessment of Urban Green Space Qualities Using 3D Visualization Tools

      • Eckart Lange, Sigrid Hehl-Lange, Isabella Mambretti

      Pages 185-198

   4. Movism: Prologue to a New Visual Theory in Landscape Architecture

      • Christophe Girot

      Pages 199-206

   5. Hiking in Real and Virtual Worlds

      • Duncan Cavens, Eckart Lange

      Pages 207-215

   6. Complex Systems Applications for Transportation Planning

      • Kai Nagel, Bryan Raney

      Pages 217-236

   7. On the Variability of Human Activity Spaces

      • Stefan Schönfelder, Kay W. Axhausen

      Pages 237-262

   8. Networked Systems: Challenges in Risk Analysis and Availability Assessment

      • Wolfgang Kröger, Ralf Mock

      Pages 263-280

   9. Material Flow Analysis as a Tool for Sustainable Management of the Built Environment

      • Susanne Kytzia

      Pages 281-298

Experiencing the world of daily life means to observe and perceive the natural, the man-made, the socio-spatial, and the politico-economic elements of the en­ vironment we live in. But, have you ever tried to explain the phenomena of daily life such as a traffic jam or mass transit to a child? It will take you quite a while to find suitable images to make invisible forces perceivable and con­ cepts like timetables, bus routes, or capacity constraints comprehensible. This exercise alone will convince you that we need imagery or virtual worlds to cope with the complexity of the real world. The task of spatial planning is to design, implement and manage alternative futures for a complex, dynamic socio-spatial environment that emerges from a wide range of intertwined social, political, economic and environmental processes. In order to learn about these processes and gain knowledge that en­ ables spatial planners to better understand and manage socio-spatial reality, they need to think in and work with virtual worlds.

• Asia
• China
• Governance
• Monitoring
• Urban and Regional Planning
• Zurich
• calculus
• development
• landscape modelling
• modeling
• sustainable development
• transportation
• transportation modelling
• urban development
• urban studies
• landscape/regional and urban planning

The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning brings together contributions from leaders in landscape, transportation, and urban planning. They present case studies - from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa - that ground the exploration of ideas in the realities of sustainable urban and regional planning, landscape planning and present the prospects for using virtual worlds for modeling spatial environments and their application in planning. The first part explores the challenges for planning in the real world that are caused by the dynamics of socio-spatial systems as well as by the contradictions of their evolutionary trends related to their spatial layout. The second part presents diverse concepts to model, analyze, visualize, monitor and control socio-spatial systems by using virtual worlds.

• Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft ETH Hönggerberg, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr

• Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung ETH Hönggerberg, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Marco Keiner, Gustav Nussbaumer

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