GIS applications in Planning: Examples from Local Authorities and Government

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GIS applicationsin PlanningExamples from Local
Authorities and Government

• Andrea I. Frank
• School of City and Regional Planning,
• Cardiff University - Wales

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Definitions

• Planning has different flavours
• Economic, urban, rural, land use planning
• Spatial, urban and regional planning
• Critical thinking about space and place as a
  basis for action or intervention (RTPI 2003)
• methods used by the public sector to influence
  the future distribution of activities in space
  with the aim of creating more rational
  territorial organisation of land uses and
  linkages to balance demands (EC 1997)
• Urban management
• Day-to-day operation tasks and administration,
  i.e. construction and street building, parcel and
  property management, tax collection

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Goal Inform Education in Planning/GIS

• Early ideas support improve rational planning
  
• Driven by research
• Webster (1995), Wegener (1998) Masser, et al
  (1996)
• Impact of changes in planning, GIS technology
• Today Use of GIS in local regional government
• For what/why use GIS?
• Is it used for spatial planning, economic
  planning, urban management?
• How is it used, set up and applications? By whom?

• Teaching
• Building of a GIS
• Mastering Software
• Basic introductory analysis, mapping
• Advanced modelling
• Implications for GIS education
• ???

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Case study 1 Bristol

• 1. Informing the public .

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With local information .
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Case Study 1 Bristol

• 2. Visualisation of data
• Mapping of liveability scores per neighbourhood
  based on a quality of life survey..
• To provide clear, timely and location specific
  evidence for monitoring and review
• 3. Emergency planning (GIS is used to access
  vital information on vulnerable populations and
  traffic patterns to assist emergency services to
  operate efficiently)

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Other Examples

• Edinburgh Integrated City Area Planning
  (Datashare) for community planning
• Participatory GIS
• Work at CASA for design visualisation etc.

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Case 3 Wales

• Welsh Spatial Plan
• Information and mapping
• Schematic level illustrations

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Spectrum of GIS setups

• Managerial administrative GIS
• Improve how city operates
• integrated database
• Highly accurate locational information, frequent
  updating
• Process modeling
• Access use from many if not all agency
  departments

• Project-oriented GIS
• Facilitate a project using analysis/mapping
  functions
• Database with selected data relevant to project
• Low to medium spatial accuracy
• Use by single department

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Summary

• GIS for planning support but to what degree
  varies
• High percentage of GIS use in planning is related
  to thematic maps (description) and simple
  analyses (prediction)
• Some use for public participation special
  projects
• GIS benefits for planning are not easily
  quantified (but if, mostly linked to
  administrative tasks in cities with a managerial
  setup for GIS)
• GIS growth areas
• Emergency services and planning, e-government
• Internet map servers/Public participation/visualis
  ation