A Review of Scenario Planning Tools for Urban Planning; Challenges and Opportunities for Pakistan M. Q. Hussnain, Dr. Abdul Waheed Department of Urban & Regional Planning, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad Corresponding author e-mail: plannerqadeer@gmail.com Abstract The level of complexity, uncertainty and subjectivity involved in urban planning process has created the need for computer assisted planning support systems (PSS). Scenario Planning tools are a subset of PSS which
Bridge for Comprehensive Planning (1956), he advocated a sort of “intelligence function of planning” that provides a “middle-range bridge” between long term comprehensive planning and the daily routine (p. 60). In other words, this sort of planning involves information gathering, scenario creation, testing, evaluation, which may all be implemented on a regular basis to support the governing functions of an urban planner. Meyerson is careful to distinguish his form of planning with that of long-range
products is favourable, plant production has an even more profitable return. Crops like herbs, salad greens, and out of season fruits and vegetables have a higher farm gate price than fish. Fish mature slower and crops AQUAPONICS THE SUSTAINABLE URBAN SOLUTION 8 reach harvest size at a faster rate with a higher biomass conversion rate (Love, Fry, Genello, Hill, Fredrick, Li, Semmens, 2014, pp. 3). Literature Review on Aquaponics Aquaponics is a relatively new and expanding field
Introduction Geographical visualization is situated in the context of the Geographical Information System (GIS) development and it is used on a wider scale of GIS (Hernandez, 2007). GIS includes methods and techniques developed in order to represent features of the real world in the virtual environment of informational technology. The representations of the real world features are done as closest to the models created by the human mind (Bishr, 1998). Moreover, geovisualization is the consequence
since independence, urban planners and other state holders have accepted that development policies for urban and rural areas have failed or have not worked as expected. Cities in Nigeria especially, Ibadan have been observed to have changed in size, spatial organization or morphology, quality and distribution of public services and infrastructure and in it employment base. Despite many efforts aimed at making the urban problems solved through the enactment of plethora of planning laws and regulations
Analysis Discussion Analysis with regards to survey: After conducting research from various sources, it has come to my attention that there is a lack of knowledge on Urban Sprawl and what Urban Sprawl is actually defined as. 60% of the community members did not actually know was Urban Sprawl was. Results also confirmed that Urban Sprawl has an impact on the environment as 100% of the members who answered the questionnaire said that it does in fact have an impact (please refer to question 2 on
more extruded (Sun 2012) Regional economic development differences are expanding as well, which is restricted the sustainable development of land economics. Land economic density is an important index to measure the land utilization efficiency and urban economic development. Spatial territory of China is complex, and there is a great disparity among regions. Therefore, choosing the corresponding economic structure according to the spatial agglomeration and superiority conditions of regional economy
NEED OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR INDIAN CITIES Abstract Defining Sustainability The root of sustainability lies in the growing awareness about activities done by humans that result in depletion of natural capital at a rate faster than the rate of replenishment by nature itself. While no universal definition of sustainability exists, the concept of ‘intergenerational equity’ (Todd Litman & David Burwell, 2006) meaning ‘being fair to the future generations’ best defines it. On the broad
siting an optimum disposal site for MSW. GIS is a system designed to allow user to collect, manage, analyse, and retrieve large volume of spatially referenced data and associated attribute data collected from a variety of sources. The role of GIS in MSWM is large as many aspects of planning and operations of disposal of waste are highly dependent on the spatial data. GIS can analyse the optimal locations of transfer stations, it can also assist in planning the routes for vehicles transporting the waste
dSmart City as a Key Strategy to Improve the Urban Quality of Life: A Bottom-Up Approach Towards Building an Inclusive Smart City (Case study: Mashhad, Iran) PhD Proposal, Jamileh Montazer Torbati Introduction The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development in the past few decades has altered the urban environment in every aspect. Urban dwellers are definitely experiencing a new lifestyle, with smart phones, apps and social networks. Smart gadgets are entering our lives as well as