Beauty and Brains: Integrating Easy Spatial Design and Advanced Urban Sustainability Models

Dias, Eduardo; Linde, Marianne; Rafiee, Azarakhsh; Koomen, E.; Scholten, H.J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37533-0_27

Cited by 24 publications

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“…While the dialogue around maps proved active and dynamic, some stakeholders of the Arnhem case felt overwhelmed with the amount of spatial information presented. Something which is confirmed by other studies about the relation between urban designers and GIS-based tools (Dias et al 2013;Pelzer et al 2014b). …”

Section: Explorationsupporting

confidence: 71%

Planning Support Systems and Task-Technology Fit: a Comparative Case Study

Pelzer

Arciniegas²,

Geertman

et al. 2015

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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Studies in the Planning Support Systems (PSS) debate are increasingly paying attention to the support function of PSS. This involves among other things studying the usefulness of PSS to practitioners. This paper adds another dimension to this evolving debate by arguing that planning tasks should receive more attention. Although planning tasks are central in several PSS definitions, they have hardly received explicit attention in empirical studies. In an aim to fill this void we conducted an empirical study based on the perspective of tasktechnology fit. The latter consists of a combination ('fit') of analytical and communicative support capabilities ('technologies'), and three types of planning tasks: exploration, selection and negotiation. Next, we selected four case studies in the Netherlands, in which the same PSS was applied, which consists of a combination of the CommunityViz software and a touch-enabled MapTable. The cases differed in the planning tasks that were central during the workshop, resulting in different kinds of usefulness attributed to the PSS. For instance, in one case with a selection task the communicative support capabilities contributed to the transparency of the process, whereas in another the analytic support capabilities of the PSS improved the task of negotiation because of the iterative feedback it provided. The paper concludes with the observation that the concept of task-technology fit has potential be applied in different contexts and with different types of PSS.

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Section: Explorationsupporting

confidence: 71%

Planning Support Systems and Task-Technology Fit: a Comparative Case Study

Pelzer

Arciniegas²,

Geertman

et al. 2015

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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“…Since the analytical frame tends to be aptly facilitated by a PSS, the challenge is mainly to connect to a design frame. This implies an important role for sketch tools, either analogue or digital (Dias et al, 2013). The main challenge in this regard, however, is to integrate these different instruments and working habits.…”

Section: Conditions For Successful Interdisciplinary Learning With a Pssmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Although the importance of a design frame was widely acknowledged, the aim of the workshop and the structure of the PSS were chiefly analytically oriented. This refers to a broader debate with regard to the quantitative and analytical set-up of most PSS versus the creative and intuitive way of working of urban designers (Dias, Kuipers, Rafiee, Koomen, & Scholten, 2013).…”

Section: Explanation Of Strengths and Frictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning support systems and interdisciplinary learning

Pelzer

Geertman

2014

Planning Theory & Practice

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Planning is both an interdisciplinary and a collaborative endeavour. A range of disciplines are involved in planning, which arguably all have a specific frame through which they perceive reality and address planning issues. Three main disciplinary frames can be discerned: analytical, design and negotiation. Within this context, increasing usage is made of planning support systems (PSS), which are integrated sets of tools, often digital, aiming to support different tasks in the planning process. PSS arguably have the potential to support the planning process by facilitating interdisciplinary learning processes, involving "frame reflection" by different disciplinary actors. This paper studies this assumption through two case studies in which a PSS was applied in an interdisciplinary setting. It was found that "frame reflection" (double-loop learning) occurred in only one of the two case studies -and that this involved several frictions between disciplines. In the other case study more practical forms of learning were found (single-loop learning) -also valuable for planning. It is concluded that PSS have potential for interdisciplinary learning, particularly where the impact analysis function and a shared spatial language improve the quality of the dialogue. With regard to the latter, however, PSS should be prevented from dominating the discussion as this is something which is particularly problematic for stakeholders with a design frame. In future research, the role of local stakeholders in relation to PSS and interdisciplinary learning could also be taken into account.

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“…With the development of new modelling methods to simulate land-use change, linked to the enormous power of computer technology and the state-of-the-art geographical information systems (GISs) with which to store and manipulate more extensive and more detailed sets of data (Stillwell, Geertman, and Openshaw 1999;Scholten, van der Velde, and van Manen 2009), it has become feasible to develop an appropriate decision support framework to evaluate alternative scenarios of future land-use change in and around cities. We will briefly outline here the conceptual framework, the Geodesign Framework (Steinitz 2012;Dias et al, forthcoming), which underpins the structure we like to propose.…”

Section: Conceptualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%