Download or read book Visualizing Sustainable Planning written by Gerhard Steinebach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: we are a part of, the current discussions of global recession in the media alerts us to the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated, and hyper-complex socio-economic-ecological system is d- ficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to prepare as well as build res- ience in the impacted communities, appropriate visualization tools are indispensable for effective planning. Second, planners have largely been slow to incorporate the advances in visuali- tion research emerging from other domains of inquiry. The research on visualizing 3-dimensional environments have now entered the mainstream of computer science with a number of highly cited articles. Other disciplines, such as graphic design, geography and cartography have also lead in the development of new forms of vi- alization and communication, both conceptually and technologically. In contrast, the literature on modeling and visualization in planning has relied heavily on g- graphic information systems (GIS) tools that continue to provide two-dimensional spatial maps in formats not significantly different from those of a decade ago. This is not to suggest that research on planning support systems and GIS have been stagnant. Integrated models of transportation-land use-environment have become more sophisticated and several operational models are currently in use. Regardless, visualization research in planning has not kept pace with these developments. This volume attempts to redress this gap in the planning literature.
Download or read book Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning written by Ian Bishop and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of issues involved in visualization technologies used in landscape and environmental planning. Covers a classification of the technology as well as a number of specialized applications across agricultural, industrial and urban planning.
Download or read book Visualization Methods for Sustainable Planning written by Sebastian Petsch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visualizing Sustainable Community Development Alternatives written by Eduard Epp and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project is the cumulation of work on the development of a hypermedia delivery system and computer modelling for testing community response to sustainable community design alternatives. The hypothesis of the project was that both the designer and the user could derive a better understanding of the implications of planning and design strategies using Advanced Computer Visualization (ACV) technology in addition to conventional media. Using ACV technology, the designer can investigate an existing (or proposed) project and, in the process of generating planning and design alternatives, test public attitudes and opinions towards design alternatives, which in turn could inform the design process in developing and evaluating these alternatives. The scope of the research project was limited to modelling an existing community design project (Edgemont, Calgary), and evaluating plan and design alternatives using ACV technology. The goal was to introduce concepts of sustainable community design in an interactive group setting in which "user" preferences could be identified and recorded. User responses were collected in a hard copy format to ensure confidentiality. Video records of the proceedings and the hypermedia presentation were also created. The resulting program has been modelled and presented in this document. The final product is a multimedia product that can be used to test resident response to sustainable community design alternatives.
Download or read book Cause and Effect written by Sven Ehmann and published by Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the new visual language of sustainability.
Download or read book Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation written by Stefan Müller Arisona and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out. It addresses both newcomers who wish to obtain more knowledge about this growing area of interest, as well as established researchers and practitioners who want to keep up to date. In terms of organization, the volume starts out with chapters looking at the domain at a wide-angle and then moves focus towards technical viewpoints and approaches.
Download or read book Visualizing the Data City written by Paolo Ciuccarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates novel methods and technologies for the collection, analysis and representation of real-time user-generated data at the urban scale in order to explore potential scenarios for more participatory design, planning and management processes. For this purpose, the authors present a set of experiments conducted in collaboration with urban stakeholders at various levels (including citizens, city administrators, urban planners, local industries and NGOs) in Milan and New York in 2012. It is examined whether geo-tagged and user-generated content can be of value in the creation of meaningful, real-time indicators of urban quality, as it is perceived and communicated by the citizens. The meanings that people attach to places are also explored to discover what such an urban semantic layer looks like and how it unfolds over time. As a conclusion, recommendations are proposed for the exploitation of user-generated content in order to answer hitherto unsolved urban questions. Readers will find in this book a fascinating exploration of techniques for mining the social web that can be applied to procure user-generated content as a means of investigating urban dynamics.
Download or read book Visualizing Climate Change written by Stephen R.J. Sheppard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps). Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and climate change visible where we care the most, in our own backyards and local communities. Extensive color imagery explains how climate change works where we live, and reveals how we often conceal, misinterpret, or overlook the evidence of climate change impacts and our carbon usage that causes them. This guide to using visual media in communicating climate change vividly brings to life both the science and the practical solutions for climate change, such as local renewable energy and flood protection. It introduces powerful new visual tools (from outdoor signs to video-games) for communities, action groups, planners, and other experts to use in engaging the public, building awareness and accelerating action on the world’s greatest crisis.
Download or read book Visualizing sustainable landscapes understanding and negotiating conservation and development trade offs using visual techniques written by Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2012 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vis Enviro Science EPUB High School 6 Year Access written by David M. Hassenzahl and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management written by Martin van Maarseveen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.1201/9781315146638, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. GIS is used today to better understand and solve urban problems. GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: A Global Perspective, explores and illustrates the capacity that geo-information and GIS have to inform practitioners and other participants in the processes of the planning and management of urban regions. The first part of the book addresses the concept of sustainable urban development, its different frameworks, the many ways of measuring sustainability, and its value in the urban policy arena. The second part discusses how urban planning can shape our cities, examines various spatial configurations of cities, the spread of activities, and the demands placed on different functions to achieve strategic objective. It further focuses on the recognition that urban dwellers are increasingly under threat from natural hazards and climate change. Written by authors with expertise on the applications of geo-information in urban management, this book showcases the importance of GIS in better understanding current urban challenges and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It illustrates through real world cases the use of GIS in analyzing and evaluating the position of disadvantaged groups and areas in cities and provides clear examples of applied GIS in urban sustainability and urban resilience. The idea of sustainable development is still very much central in the new development agenda of the United Nations, and in that sense, it is of particular importance for students from both the Global South and Global North. Professionals, researchers, and students alike will find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and management.
Download or read book Landscape Visualization to Improve Sustainability Competencies in Participatory Natural Resource Management written by Elham Nasr Azadani and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 50 years, the participation of the public in decision-making, joint problem-solving, and interactive management has increased. This growing participatory management has been categorized into five communication and public involvement levels: Informing, Consulting, Involving, Collaborating, and Empowering, which move from one-way distribution of information to the total contribution of the public in decision-making. Progression to higher levels of participatory processes is critical for a range of preferable societal outcomes, such as better distribution of resources, anti-poverty outcomes, and higher levels of resilience to survive critical situations and disasters. Our results document the growing use of landscape visualization techniques for participatory natural resource management. This rapid development of visualization techniques has led to increased effectiveness at each level of participatory planning, as evidenced by a growing number of published studies over time. We also identify specific visualization attributes that contribute to successful outcomes within each level of participation. However, we did not find proof to support the hypothesis that the increased availability of more advanced visualization techniques is driving natural resource planning and management to adopt higher levels of public participation. We, instead, postulate that an additional factor could be responsible for the apparent mismatch between the availability of increasingly advanced visualization techniques and their use in higher levels of participatory planning. Participating stakeholders' level of competency and local knowledge may inform this apparent paradox, as higher levels may negate the need for sophisticated visualization techniques. Likewise, lower local knowledge and decision-making competencies may require these advanced techniques to engage stakeholders in the process thoroughly. We, therefore, suggest investigating participants' competency levels before designing visualization products, which avoids unnecessary expenditure of resources while obtaining better results. Competency is a combination of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable individuals that supports successful task performance and problem-solving regarding real-world sustainability challenges and opportunities. As one of the essential sustainability skills, systems-thinking allows the learner to think comprehensively of system dynamics at different temporal and spatial scales, enabling the learner to assess and analyze a system's behavioral pattern through time instead of focusing on particular short-term events. Especially after 2019, when Covid-19 hit the world, we cannot think about life, our plans, the next generation, and the earth's future as before. COVID-19 has shown us that current approaches to planning and anticipating future consequences are insufficient for our current challenges, calling for us to introduce new models for problem-solving that acknowledge linked natural, economic, and social systems. These uncertainties, challenges, and complications emphasize the necessity of enhancing and promoting key sustainability competencies, especially systems thinking, at various scales (e.g., nations, policymakers, and local communities). These competencies enable planners, the public, the local community, academics, development practitioners, and anyone who intends to understand sustainability to address environmental challenges, get a better vision of the future, and think about practical solutions. Among all these groups, local communities and indigenous people play a significant role in preserving the natural environment, moving towards more sustainable systems, and co-producing knowledge on improving our planning based on traditional ecological knowledge. Our project will enhance decision-making opportunities for tribal communities, especially younger generations, by providing clear routes to recognizing and acknowledging their identity concerning the land and their local, traditional, and cultural values. In this research, we focus on the indigenous knowledge of the Menominee Tribal community as the leading stakeholders in the Menominee tribal forest. For thousands of years, the Menominee Nation has survived by managing natural resources in the area now known as Northeast Wisconsin. Since 1856, the Menominee Nation has been in charge of sustainable timber supplies in their forests, considered one of the first sustainable forestry operations in the United States. Rooted in this long-term experience with land stewardship, both prior to and following colonization, the Sustainable Development Institute at the College of Menominee Nation has developed to articulate a holistic model of sustainable development based on the Menominee experience. This model "conceptualizes sustainable development as the process of maintaining the balance and reconciling the inherent tensions among six dimensions of sustainability: land and sovereignty; natural environment (including human beings); institutions; technology; economy; and human perception, activity, and behavior." The results of chapters two and three of the current document indicated that landscape visualizations that are real, static, still, non-immersive, and 2D, such as realistic images and paintings, are compelling for participatory decision-making in Forestry and Sustainability studies. We employed a more complex visualization rooted in traditional forest management concerning two identified subsets of Bloom's Taxonomy based on the information to investigate if the more complex visualization leads to better results in policy and management. We designed and used two sets of visualization: Real, Static, Still, Non-immersive, and 2D (Realistic images), besides Real, Dynamic, Interactive, Non-immersive, and 3D (Web-based game engine). Benefiting from the advantage of these techniques, we also proposed a framework to evaluate various systems thinking skills. The general results in this experiment illustrate the effectiveness of landscape visualization in better illuminating the context of the system and systematic thinking among local communities. Although individuals' responses to various visual forms may depend on their personality and thinking style, regardless of their culture and the location they have been raised, visualization can highly affect how people think and communicate their thoughts. However, it seems practical to design visualization tools and research methods based on the audiences' competencies, preferences, and comfort to obtain more reliable results.
Download or read book Visualizing Nature written by Stuart Kestenbaum and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, philosophy, and more. Compiled by editor and poet Stuart Kestenbaum, the contributors represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, each honoring nature's power to heal, inspire, guide, amaze, and strengthen. Activist Maulian Dana of the Penobscot Nation writes on the intertwining relationship of motherhood and Mother Earth. Biology professor David Haskell tells the story of the resilient bristlecone pine trees, which live to be as old as 2,100 years. Iranian scholar Alireza Taghdarreh speaks to his experience of translating Emerson's "Nature" into Farsi. A previously unpublished 1962 speech by Rachel Carson complements the collection of more than twenty essays, each inviting the reader into a quiet space of reflection with the opportunity to think deeply about how they relate to the natural world.
Download or read book Visualizing Landscape Architecture written by Elke Mertens and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We don’t sell gardens; we sell images of gardens.” This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, clients, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate the designers’ proposed ideas and solutions, but they also convey their attitude toward the use of nature and the environment. With myriad possibilities – including computer programs as well as hand drawings and models, which continue to be widely used – and strong competition in the field, there is now a huge variety of visual representations, with agreed-upon rules but also a great deal of freedom. In three large sections, this books sifts through the currently commonplace and available techniques and evaluates them in terms of their informative value and persuasive power, always illustrating its points with analysis of examples from international firms. An introductory look at the development thus far is followed by a systematic presentation of modes of representation in two, three, and four dimensions – in the plane, in space, and in the temporal process. The second section deals with the sequence within the workflow: from the initial sketch through concept and implementation planning all the way to the finished product. The third section deals with the strategic use of visualizations in the context of competitions, future schemes, and large-scale landscape planning. The focus in this section is not on the familiar use of the relevant techniques, but rather on the methods and forms of visual representation in contemporary landscape architecture.
Download or read book Resilient Urban Futures written by Zoé A. Hamstead and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change.
Download or read book Planning Development and Management of Sustainable Cities written by Tan Yigitcanlar and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of ‘sustainable urban development’ has been pushed to the forefront of policymaking and politics as the world wakes up to the impacts of climate change and the destructive effects of the Anthropocene. Climate change has emerged to be one of the biggest challenges faced by our planet today, threatening both built and natural systems with long-term consequences, which may be irreversible. While there is a vast body of literature on sustainability and sustainable urban development, there is currently limited focus on how to cohesively bring together the vital issues of the planning, development, and management of sustainable cities. Moreover, it has been widely stated that current practices and lifestyles cannot continue if we are to leave a healthy living planet to not only the next generation, but also to the generations beyond. The current global school strikes for climate action (known as Fridays for Future) evidences this. The book advocates the view that the focus needs to rest on ways in which our cities and industries can become green enough to avoid urban ecocide. This book fills a gap in the literature by bringing together issues related to the planning, development, and management of cities and focusing on a triple-bottom-line approach to sustainability.
Download or read book From Information to Participation written by Olaf Schroth and published by vdf Hochschulverlag AG. This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If landscape visualizations are applied as tools for participation, they should provide a high level of interactivity to facilitate planning process and outcomes. This book presents evidence for this hypothesis through demonstrative case studies in the Entlebuch UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Switzerland. In collaborative workshops, interactive real-time visualizations were used to respond directly to the dialogue, and long-term climate change impacts were illustrated through collapsing time animations. The author, Dr. Olaf Schroth, is a researcher at the University of British Columbia and has studied both geodesy and planning in Hanover, Hamburg and Newcastle upon Tyne. Since then, he has been working at the interface of planning and 3D visualization, and the book summarizes his work in the EU project VisuLands (2003-2006) and his PhD at ETH Zurich. His research is not technology-driven but rather raises critical issues from a planning perspective. Therefore, the results and hands-on recommendations address researchers as well as practitioners in planning, architecture, geovisualization, geography, cartography and computer visualization.
