The 1990s have seen some remarkable changes in geographical information (GI) provision and computer technology that have impacted on many of the activities that constitute planning in all its different forms. However, relatively few texts in the field of geographical information systems (GIS) and planning have been published since Henk Scholten and John Stillwell edited Geographical Information Systems for Urban and Regional Planning in 1990. This volume seeks to redress the balance by showing how GI of various types is being used in urban, physical, environmental, socio-economic and business planning contexts at local, regional and national scales with the assistance of GIS and modelling methods, and how the uses of GI and GI technologies have evolved over the last decade. During this period, a number of meetings took place in Europe in different locations organised initially by European Geographical Information Systems (EGIS, 1990- 94) and more recently by the Joint European Conference and Exhibition (JEC) on Geographical Information (1995-97). These meetings brought together members of the GI community from across the world to discuss GI research and GIS applications. One of the Special Interest Groups associated with the JEC gatherings was that on 'Geographical Information and Planning' and several of the contributions in this book have their origins in papers presented to the group's meetings.

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Preface Introduction JOHN STILLWELL, STAN GEERTMAN AND STAN OPENSHAW Developments in Geographical Information and Planning Part I: Urban Planning and Design IAN MASSER AND HENK OTTENS Urban Planning and Geographic Information Systems MICHAEL BATTY, MARTIN DODGE, BIN JIANG AND ANDY SMITH Geographical Information Systems and Urban Design Part II: Physical and Land Use Planning STAN GEERTMAN Geographical Information Technology and Strategic Physical Planning GUY ENGELEN, STAN GEERTMAN, PETRA SMITS AND COEN WESSELS Dynamic GIS and Strategic Physical Planning Support: A Practical Application HENK J. SCHOLTEN, ROB VAN DE VELDE, PIET RIETVELD AND MAARTEN HILFERINK Spatial Information Infrastructure for Scenario Planning: The Development of a Land Use Planner for Holland ERIC RAPAPORT AND FOLKE SNICKARS GIS-based Road Location in Sweden: A Case Study to Minimize Environmental Damage, Building Costs and Travel Time ILYA ZASLAVSKY AND NAUM NAIMARK Development of the Urban Planning Cadastre in Russia MICHEL BERNARD AND PHILIPPE MIELLET Geographical Information and GIS in French Planning Part III: Environmental Planning CHRISTOPHE CLARAMUNT, CHRISTINE PARENT, STEFANO SPACCAPIETRA AND MARIUS THRIAULT Database Modelling for Environmental and Land Use Changes DAVID KIDNER, ANDREW SPARKES AND MARK DOREY GIS and Wind Farm Planning ADRIAN MCDONALD, JIM FOSTER, ANDY SMITH AND HARRIET CANDY GIS Applications in the Water Industry JEAN-PAUL DONNAY Use of Remote Sensing Information in Planning Part IV: Socio-economic Planning JOHN STILLWELL AND COLIN WINNETT Geographic Intelligence for Regional Planning DAVID MARTIN The Use of GIS in Census Planning SERAPHIM ALVANIDES AND STAN OPENSHAW Zone Design for Planning and Policy Analysis JOHN STILLWELL AND ROBERT LANGLEY Information and Planning in the Education Sector MARTIN CLARKE GIS and Strategic Business Planning MANFRED FISCHER Intelligent GI Analysis Part V: Geographical Information and Planning on the Internet STEVE CARVER AND ROBERT PECKHAM Using GIS on the Internet for Planning CRISTINA GOUVEIA AND ANTONIO CAMARA Multimedia and Urban Planning CHRISTINE LEIGH, PETER DEW, RICHARD DREW AND JAYNE CURSON Integrated Information Directory Services: Facilitating the Transfer and Exploitation of Science and Technology on the World Wide Web Future Developments STAN OPENSHAW Geocyber Planning in the Digital Democracy of 2099 Acronyms Bibliography Figures Tables Contributors