Planning support systems for implementing blue-green infrastructure: Multi-functional spatial planning strategies in Amsterdam

Cities are facing more extreme climates and weather events. This requires changes in the way cities are planned and designed. Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is increasingly recognized to guide the transition to climate resilient cities. BGI is founded in urban water management but has emerged as a complementary type of infrastructure because it...

Evaluating a planning support system's use and effects in urban adaptation: An exploratory case study from Berlin, Germany

Planning Support Systems (PSS) are increasingly used to support collaborative planning workshops in urban adaptation practice. Research has focused on developing such tools and evaluating their use in workshops but has not measured tools' effects over time on real planning processes, on the participants involved, and on the final outcomes....

Essential Means for Urban Computing: Specification of Web-Based Computing Platforms for Urban Planning, a Hitchhiker’s Guide

This article provides an overview of the specifications of web-based computing platforms for urban data analytics and computational urban planning practice. There are currently a variety of tools and platforms that can be used in urban computing practices, including scientific computing languages, interactive web languages, data sharing...

Adaptation Planning Support Toolbox: Measurable performance information based tools for co-creation of resilient, ecosystem-based urban plans with urban designers, decision-makers and stakeholders

Adapting urban areas to climate change: a necessary evil or a world of opportunities?

Planning support systems in urban development in the Netherlands

This thesis focuses on the planning support systems (PSS) that are currently being applied in Dutch urban development practice. The use of PSS can support the complex urban development processes by giving insight into the urban processes by structuring and visualising spatial data, and also by supporting the communication and collaboration...

Graphical Smalltalk with My Optimization System for Urban Planning Tasks

Based on the description of a conceptual framework for the representation of planning problems on various scales, we introduce an evolutionary design optimization system. This system is exemplified by means of the generation of street networks with locally defined properties for centrality. We show three different scenarios for planning...