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The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning

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Editors:
  1. Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr

    1. Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft ETH Hönggerberg, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  2. Marco Keiner

    1. Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung ETH Hönggerberg, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  3. Gustav Nussbaumer

    1. Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung ETH Hönggerberg, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • Provides the reader with a comprehensive perspective of spatial planning, new methods and techniques in planning as well as a wide range of case studies
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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  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
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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.

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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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