The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning
| Author | : Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2013-03-09 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783662103982 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3662103982 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (982 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning written by Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning brings together contributions from leaders in landscape, transportation, and urban planning. They present case studies - from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa - that ground the exploration of ideas in the realities of sustainable urban and regional planning, landscape planning and present the prospects for using virtual worlds for modeling spatial environments and their application in planning. The first part explores the challenges for planning in the real world that are caused by the dynamics of socio-spatial systems as well as by the contradictions of their evolutionary trends related to their spatial layout. The second part presents diverse concepts to model, analyze, visualize, monitor and control socio-spatial systems by using virtual worlds
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