Overview
- Prime focus on support for actual planning practice
- Pays particular attention to the support role of the systems
- Takes a demand side perspective (real world applications) on planning support
- Describes new and innovative developments
- Covers support systems for a wide variety of types/forms of planning
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 95)
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About this book
Planning Support Systems: Retrospect and Prospect It has been nearly twenty years since the term ‘planning support systems’ (PSS) first appeared in an article by Britton Harris (Harris 1989) and more than ten years since the concept was more broadly introduced in the academic literature (Harris and Batty 1993; Batty 1995; Klosterman 1997). As a result, the publication of a new book on PSS provides an excellent opportunity to assess past progress in the field and speculate on future developments. PSS have clearly become very popular in the academic world. This is the fourth edited book devoted to the topic following Brail and Klosterman (2001), Geertman and Stillwell (2003), and a third by Brail (2008). Papers devoted to PSS have been published in the leading planning journals and the topic has become a regular theme at academic conferences around the world; it has even spawned intellectual o- spring such as spatial planning and decision support systems (SPDSS) and public participationplanning support systems (PP-PSS). However, as Geertman and Stillwell point out in their introductory chapter, the experience with PSS in the world of professional practice has been disappointing. A substantial number of PSS have been developed but most of them are academic p- totypes or ‘one off’ professional applications that have not been adopted elsewhere.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Application and Assessment of Existing PSS
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Design, Development and Implementation of Recent PSS
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New Methods for Planning Support
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Participation and Collaboration in PSS
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Reviews
“A superb addition to the literature on planning support systems (PSS). This book is a “must read” for the urban planning researcher or practitioner who wants to keep current in this rapidly evolving field.” Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, volume 3, issue 1, 2011.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods
Editors: Stan Geertman, John Stillwell
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8952-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8951-0Published: 20 March 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8035-6Published: 05 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8952-7Published: 01 May 2009
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 490
Topics: Human Geography, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Earth Sciences, general, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning