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- First book focusing directly on these topics
- Provides a theoretical framework that links planning, GIS, and community development
- Includes case studies that provide examples of planning processes at the local, regional, and national scales
- Contains critical discussions about the future of participatory processes that use technologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Geographic Information Science (AGIS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Participatory Planning: Why Does It matter?
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The Future of PPGIS
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Back Matter
About this book
Computer-mediated participation is at the crossroads. In the early heady days of the digital revolution, access to "high" technologies such as GIS promised the empowerment of marginalized communities by providing data and information that was previously hidden away from public view. To a great extent, this goal has been achieved at least in the U.S. and Western Europe – data about a range of government initiatives and raw data about different aspects of spatial planning such as land use, community facilities, property ownership are available a mouse-click away. Now, that we, the public, have access to information, are we able to make better plans for the future of our cities and regions? Are we more inclusive in our planning efforts? Are we able to foster collaborative governance structures mediated by digital technologies? In the book, these issues will be discussed using a three-part structure. The first part of the book will be theoretical – it will review the literature in the field, establish a framework to organize the literature and to link three different subject areas (participation and community development, GIS and other related technologies, and planning processes). The second part of the book will be a series of success stories, case studies that review actual situations where participatory planning using GIS has enabled community wellbeing and empowerment. These case studies will vary in scale and focus on different planning issues (planning broadly defined). The final part of the book will step back to review alternative scenarios for the future, exploring where we are headed, as the technologies we are using to plan rapidly change.
Reviews
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“Geographic Information Systems and Public Participation is one of eight books in the Springer series Advances in Geographic Information Science. … Ramasubramanian provides readers with several relevant building frameworks and food for thought, especially in the fields of public engagement, planning, and GIS development. It also offers ample sources for further reading … .” (Cindy Regalado, Environmental and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol. 39 (2), 2012)Authors and Affiliations
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Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, U.S.A.
Laxmi Ramasubramanian
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geographic Information Science and Public Participation
Authors: Laxmi Ramasubramanian
Series Title: Advances in Geographic Information Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75401-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-75400-8Published: 04 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26214-2Published: 01 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-75401-5Published: 23 January 2010
Series ISSN: 1867-2434
Series E-ISSN: 1867-2442
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 163
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geophysics/Geodesy, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Earth Sciences, general, Cities, Countries, Regions