Emerging digital plan data – new research perspectives on planning practice and evaluation

Fertner, Christian; Christensen, Andreas Aagaard; Andersen, Peter S.; Olafsson, Anton Stahl; Præstholm, Søren; Caspersen, Ole Hjorth; Grünfelder, Julien

doi:10.1080/00167223.2018.1528555

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“…Few studies have been performed on how digitalization can negatively affect both environmental and social sustainability [62]. However, despite the possible dual effects that digitization may have on the sustainability pillars, it can still be said that digitalization could be an effective tool in urban planning and building design if properly applied, through technology that improves efficiency, smartness, and reduction of emissions, waste of resources, and time [63].…”

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Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

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Marella

2022

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Urban transitions and urban-scape have been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and will likely be affected by the current Ukrainian-Russian conflict. These two major events have affected European urban regions and especially marginal regions. Indeed, these regions are mostly struggling with inequality, lack of optionality, interoperability, and resilience due to their energy dependency and digital asymmetries. The continuous demand for a green and digital transition to strengthen social and economic resilience sought and targeted by the European Community has driven the policy of recent years to new European Guidelines. Nevertheless, the digital transition will require sustainability targets in the urban context, changing economic, social, and ecological relationships and balances. In this context, faced with these new transitions, marginal urban regions must plan, design, build, and manage future urban planning choices in a new digital-hybrid space. Therefore, it is crucial to support these transitions with a multi-dimensional sustainability concept through economic, environmental, social, and digital measurements. Urban sustainability indicators (USIs) play an essential role in supporting urban choices and planning. The current study analyzes recent literature and European standards to verify if and how they have changed in embracing the European Policy Pillar under a new and different sustainability profile, which needs to include digital sustainability. As a matter of fact, even if the concept of digitization has been recognized as a pillar of ongoing transitions, the literature and even European indicators struggle to recognize it as a tangible and measurable indicator of sustainability. Seeking to bridge the gap between European requirements and urban practice, the aim of this study is to identify and suggest new key indicators of digitalization to enable the digital sustainability of urban planning to be measured. These indicators can be used to implement a new valuation tool capable of supporting marginal regions by promoting sustainable urban investments in this new hybrid space.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

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2022

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“…The representation of plans in the form of digital data (along with accompanying textual documents) provides a promising data source to analyse the normative content of plans (Fertner et al, 2019) and thus a way to overcome the outlined challenges. Open online access to digital plan data is a rather new issue, however, digital availability of public administration documents is gaining momentum (Maguire & Longley, 2005), and spatial planning is no exception to this trend.…”

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Towards a better understanding of land conversion at the urban-rural interface: planning intentions and the effectiveness of growth management

Hersperger

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2020

Journal of Land Use Science

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The conversion of open space to built land is a key feature of urbanrural transformations. In many countries, urban sprawl represents the dominant mode of urban growth. Against this background, urban growth management plays a crucial role in mediating between diverse spatial requirements and curbing sprawl-like land-use patterns, but its effectiveness is not fully understood. Relatively few studies have systematically addressed the goals of growth-management approaches, their implementation pathways and spatial outcomes. Most available work has been carried out as single case studies which hampers solid understanding. In this paper, we first outline the challenge in understanding the role of growth management approaches in land conversions. Then we propose research to focus on: a) comprehending the intended outcomes of growth management, and b) the effectiveness of growth management. We argue that future research in this regard will enable researchers to establish causal links between growth management and land conversions.

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“…Following that, many planning authorities are offering a range of planning-related services digitally (ESPON 2018) and we can see the increasing digitization of the formal processes and of the plans themselves. Important backbones of this development are digital plan registers and databases, which got systematically established in the planning systems of many countries in the past years (Fertner et al, 2019). These databases contain geodata, which mirror parts of or the whole plan and sometimes are even the actual legally binding regulation, and can be accessed over internal and public portals or also third-party software.…”

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Digital plans and plan data in planning support science

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Fertner

2020

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Commentary on Geertman and Stillwell's article on "Planning support science: Developments and challenges," Urban Analytics and City Science, https://journals.sage pub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399808320936277 We comment on the article by Stan Geertman and John Stillwell titled "Planning support science: Developments and challenges" published in Volume 47 issue 8 in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. In this article, Geertman and Stillwell promote the Planning Support Science (PPScience), based on their observation that a fundamental transformation is taking place wherein the field of planning support systems PSS is maturing into an own science (Geertman and Stillwell, 2020c; see also Geertman and Stillwell, 2020a). Indeed, planning support systems are proliferating, due to digitization, big data, smart cities and open data, among others, which creates new opportunities for PSS and their integration into urban management. Geertman and Stillwell present PSScience as rooted in three interconnected dimensions situated in their respective spatial, temporal, environmental and socio-political contexts (Figure 1 in Geertman and Stillwell, 2020c). These dimensions are: (1) the application dimension, referring to the goal of PSScience to support sustainable and resilience urban futures and possibility to address a broad range of applications and knowledge fields; (2) the governance dimension, which concerns the process-orientation of PSScience, framed chiefly as collaborative planning; and (3) the instrumentation dimension, including information and communication technology and planning support systems. Furthermore, PSScience is described as intrinsically context-specific, so that one planning support system cannot be used within a different context without adaptation.

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Emerging digital plan data – new research perspectives on planning practice and evaluation

Cited by 22 publications

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Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Towards a better understanding of land conversion at the urban-rural interface: planning intentions and the effectiveness of growth management

Digital plans and plan data in planning support science

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