The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning

1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-3-642-07394-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koll-Schretzenmayr, Martina

Nussbaumer, Gustav

Keiner, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Landschaftsplanung, Ländliche Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Editors’ Introduction.- 1: The Real World of Spatial Planning.- 2 Spatial Planning in the Twenty-First Century: Continuing or Ceasing?.- 3 Venice, Venice, and Venice: Three Realities of the European City.- 4 Sustainable Development and Urban Management in Developing Countries: The Case of Africa.- 5 Indicator Sets on City and Cantonal Levels in Switzerland: Tools for Sustainable Development.- 6 Implementing Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of Kunming, China.- 7 Transforming Cityspace.- 8 City of Regions: Improving Territorial Governance in the Zurich’s “Glattal-Stadt”.- 9 Increasing Resistance to Political Consulting.- 10 Evaluation and Decision Support Systems in Multiple Land Use Planning: The Dutch Case.- 2: The Virtual World of Spatial Planning.- 11 Dynamic Immersive Visualization: Negotiating Landscape Images.- 12 Behavioral Monitoring in Virtual Environments: A Basis for Agent Modeling in Urban Parks.- 13 Assessment of Urban Green Space Qualities Using 3D Visualization Tools.- 14 Movism: Prologue to a New Visual Theory in Landscape Architecture.- 15 Hiking in Real and Virtual Worlds.- 16 Complex Systems Applications for Transportation Planning.- 17 On the Variability of Human Activity Spaces.- 18 Networked Systems: Challenges in Risk Analysis and Availability Assessment.- 19 Material Flow Analysis as a Tool for Sustainable Management of the Built Environment.