Bridging the Gap Between Strategic Environmental Assessment and Planning

Campagna, Michele; Cesare, Elisabetta Anna Di; Matta, Andréa; Serra, Matteo

doi:10.4018/ijepr.2018010103

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“…Such a kind of framework describing the core of the process in terms of activities, actors, products, sequences and their relationships may offer not only a meta-planning tool to design new processes (Campagna, 2016), but also a grid through which to analyze existing processes, or some of their specific aspects. In this sense, elsewhere the author has used the Steinitz' geodesign framework to analyze the completeness of content of Italian regional ditto regulations (Campagna and Di Cesare, 2016) and of local land-use plans (Campagna et al, 2018) with regards to the Strategic Environmental Assessment principles and guidelines (Directive 2001/42/EU). In the remainder of this chapter, the framework is used as a grid to review the current opportunities for the application of PSS and tools in spatial planning according to a geodesign approach.…”

Section: Geodesign: Methods and Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial planning and geodesign

Campagna¹

2020

Handbook of Planning Support Science

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While the term 'geodesign' was occasionally used earlier by some scholars with fairly different meanings, its current concept is due to the scientific debate originating in a series of meetings held in California in the early 2000s. A first workshop on 'Landscape Change', funded by the National Science Foundation and by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), was held in 2001 in Santa Barbara, California, when a group of scholars in Landscape Architecture and Planning, and in GIScience (http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/landscape/landscape.htm) started a new debate on how to bridge the gap between the design professions and GIScience (Goodchild, 2010;Wilson, 2015). Later in 2008, a second workshop on 'Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design' was held, again in Santa Barbara (http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/scdg/), by the same core group of specialists interested in investigating to what extent the fundamental spatial concepts that lie behind geographical information systems (GIS) were relevant in design.Since the first meetings, where leading scholars from landscape, urban and regional planning and GIScience met together with Esri, the major player of the GIS industry, the term has been occasionally used as a marketing buzzword in the GIS business world. Nevertheless, the work of the original group of scholars attracted the attention of a constantly growing and active community of researchers, educators and professionals in spatial planning. In the last decade, every year regular summits and conferences on geodesign were held in the USA (www.geodesignsummit.com) and Europe (http://www.digital-la.de) and occasionally in Asia and Latin America, bringing together GIS and design experts and practitioners from academia, government agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as well as the private sector, with numbers usually exceeding 100 participants or more from across a wide range of disciplines. In addition, the term geodesign started to appear in the thematic tracks of major international planning conferences and events, such as the annual meeting of the Association of European Schools of planning (Silva and Campagna, 2016) demonstrating the rapid diffusion of the approach. Beside the growing interest by researchers and practitioners, geodesign quickly became the major subject of new academic curricula in the USA (Foster, 2013) and to a lesser degree to date, in Europe (Campagna, 2017).Geodesign literature is also fast-growing, with 118 papers indexed in Scopus since 2014, and an actual positive trend. Most notably, in 2016, a special issue on geodesign was published by the Landscape and Urban Planning journal (Steiner and Shearer, 2016), documenting some of the most

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Section: Geodesign: Methods and Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial planning and geodesign

Campagna¹

2020

Handbook of Planning Support Science

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“…Through a new analytic framework based on the integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and an extended shift-share analysis, Sui models the Spatial Economic-Impacts of New Town Development in Hong-Kong [38]. Campagna and Steinitz creatively proposed Geodesign [39][40][41], and conducted an in-depth discussion on its application in the field of strategic planning and green infrastructure [42,43]. Tiboni and Rossetti further expanded the comprehensive application analysis method based on GIS and introduced it into the framework of public transportation planning and analysis, such as bus station planning [44,45].…”

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The Key Factors Driving the Development of New Towns by Mother Cities and Regions: Evidence from China

Zhao

Zhang

2021

IJGI

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As an important carrier of expanded urban spatial growth, new towns have been a “policy tool” for spatial production in the new era and have received long-term and constant attention from circles such as geography, planning, and economics. National new districts constitute a new regional space for China to implement the national strategy and promote the transformation of urban development mode. They are mutually reinforcing with their mother cities and hinterland provinces. Based on the geodetector method, this paper reveals the key factors driving the development of national new districts by mother cities and hinterland provinces and their interaction effects, which provides a basis for municipal and provincial governments to accurately formulate policies to promote the development of new towns by classification. The study shows that, firstly, there are five types of driving factors, that is, all-round driving factors, scale-increasing factors, expansion and quality-improving factors, expertise driving factors, and non-driving factors. The strength and dimension of the driving factors are characterized by prominent heterogeneity; R&D personnel, export and import trade are the key factors to expand the increment, optimize the inventory, and improve the quality; the overall development driving forces are in the order of innovation > opening > industry > investment > population. Secondly, the pairwise interaction between different factors exhibits two-factor enhancement, and the population shows a nonlinear increase in the driving force of investment, openness, and innovation on a provincial scale. Thirdly, according to the driving force of the factors and the interaction between them, suggestions are put forward based on the development stage and key demands for city and provincial governments to make policies for the development of national new districts, to support the establishment of scientific competition and cooperation between new towns and mother cities or regions, and to build a long-term collaborative development mechanism.

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“…Both Geodesign and PSSs aim to transparently share integrative information among stakeholders from different disciplines [62,63], although the former focuses on a collaborative process, while the latter refers more to a technical system. We emphasize that both are committed to supporting more robust decision making to solve complex urban issues by utilizing simulation results and visualizing spatial information for users spanning multiple disciplines.…”

Section: Connecting Geodesign and Pss Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Campagna et al [62] note that Geodesign and PSSs can be complementary to each other. Geodesign is a process that promotes a smooth collaboration with researchers to produce evidence-based designs by using geospatial technologies [34,64].…”

Section: Connecting Geodesign and Pss Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscape Design toward Urban Resilience: Bridging Science and Physical Design Coupling Sociohydrological Modeling and Design Process

2021

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Given that evolving urban systems require ever more sophisticated and creative solutions to deal with uncertainty, designing for resilience in contemporary landscape architecture represents a cross-disciplinary endeavor. While there is a breadth of research on landscape resilience within the academy, the findings of this research are seldom making their way into physical practice. There are existent gaps between the objective, scientific method of scientists and the more intuitive qualitative language of designers and practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to help bridge these gaps and ultimately support an endemic process for more resilient landscape design creation. This paper proposes a framework that integrates analytic research (i.e., modeling and examination) and design creation (i.e., place-making) using processes that incorporate feedback to help adaptively achieve resilient design solutions. Concepts of Geodesign and Planning Support Systems (PSSs) are adapted as part of the framework to emphasize the importance of modeling, assessment, and quantification as part of processes for generating information useful to designers. This paper tests the suggested framework by conducting a pilot study using a coupled sociohydrological model. The relationships between runoff and associated design factors are examined. Questions on how analytic outcomes can be translated into information for landscape design are addressed along with some ideas on how key variables in the model can be translated into useful design information. The framework and pilot study support the notion that the creation of resilient communities would be greatly enhanced by having a navigable bridge between science and practice.

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Bridging the Gap Between Strategic Environmental Assessment and Planning

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Spatial planning and geodesign

Spatial planning and geodesign

The Key Factors Driving the Development of New Towns by Mother Cities and Regions: Evidence from China

Landscape Design toward Urban Resilience: Bridging Science and Physical Design Coupling Sociohydrological Modeling and Design Process

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