scholarly journals Book Review : Handbook of Research on E-Planning - ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Nunes Silva ◽  
Alias Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Planning Development ◽  
Current Practices

This edited book preserits 23 chapters with 454 pages of literatures and case studies on the use of information and communication technologies in urban planning, development and monitoring. With its nomenclature E-Planning, the book provides a comprehensive and in depth elaboration on the theory, concept, methods and tools of the current practices of E-Pl an ning worldwide. ft is a very useful text for students, professionals, academics and government officers interested in learning and understanding about how different forms of E-Planning research have been developed and used.

scholarly journals Book Review : Handbook of Research on E-Planning - ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Nunes Silva ◽  
Alias Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Planning Development ◽  
Current Practices

This edited book preserits 23 chapters with 454 pages of literatures and case studies on the use of information and communication technologies in urban planning, development and monitoring. With its nomenclature E-Planning, the book provides a comprehensive and in depth elaboration on the theory, concept, methods and tools of the current practices of E-Pl an ning worldwide. ft is a very useful text for students, professionals, academics and government officers interested in learning and understanding about how different forms of E-Planning research have been developed and used.

Information and Communication Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tan Yigitcanlar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Urban Planning And Development

The concept of sustainable urban development has been pushed to the forefront of policy-making and politics as the world wakes up to the impacts of climate change and the effects of modern urban lifestyles. Today, sustainable development has become a very prominent element in the day-to-day debate on urban policy and the expression of that policy in urban planning and development decisions. As a result of this, during the last few years, sustainable development automation applications such as sustainable urban development decision support systems have become popular tools as they offer new opportunities for local governments to realise their sustainable development agendas. This chapter explores a range of issues associated with the application of information and communication technologies and decision support systems in the process of underpinning sustainable urban development. The chapter considers how information and communication technologies can be applied to enhance urban planning, raise environmental awareness, share decisions and improve public participation. It introduces and explores three web-based geographical information systems projects as best practice. These systems are developed as support tools to include public opinion in the urban planning and development processes, and to provide planners with comprehensive tools for the analysis of sustainable urban development variants in order to prepare the best plans for constructing sustainable urban communities and futures.

Urban Information Systems and Digital Channels to Enhance Transparency and Participation in Urban Planning

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-110
Author(s):  
Beatriz Santos
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Digital Channels

Through the use of information and communication technologies, Public Administrations make its relevant information related to issues of public interest available for citizens. In the specific field of urban planning, Spanish administrations are making a huge effort to improve the urban information and make it available online for citizens developing Urban Information Systems, tools based on Geographic Information Systems which offer visualization and interaction options and increase transparency. More recently, digital channels have started to be used to enhance participation and promote democratic processes at regional, municipal, and local level. The chapter analyses different digital tools and services implemented to improve transparency in urban planning and web-based participation processes developed in Spain to check the result of these developments concluding that there is still a long considerable way to go since information and communications technologies offers a lot of options and tools to improve these processes, particularly through the application of PPGIS.

scholarly journals Conjunction of Local and Global Processes Towards Qualitative Integrated Urban Development of Danube Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
Miodrag Ralevic ◽  
Tatjana Mrdjenovic ◽  
Esad Muminović
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Spatial Level ◽  
Danube Region ◽  
Global And Local

AbstractWe are witnesses of continuous and turbulent complexity process of urban development at every spatial level. The presence of information and communication technologies in every aspect of our life leads to the fact that there is no more “delay” in between global and local changes. This conjunction changes the paradigm of urban development, which is now in networking, communication and integration. This paper discusses these relations described as hypothesis within Castells’ paradigm of network society and project identity that should be developed on local level in order to be a part of – a node of global network, and to survive and develop its potentialities and capacities. This paradigm is discussed in relation to C. Alexander’s, E. Howard’s, and P. Geeds’ approach in order to define principles and steps of integration of different spatial levels toward more coherent, harmonized urban development. The research applies theoretical approaches of networking towards integrated development of Danube region.

scholarly journals Book Review on Integrating Information and Communication Technologies in English for Specific Purposes

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Emrah Ekmekçi
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
English For Occupational Purposes

<p>Rapid developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) in recent years have inevitably affected the nature of learning and teaching process in general. As a result of this, teachers have been constantly seeking innovative and alternative ways of teaching in all educational settings as well as in the domain of foreign language learning and teaching. However, there still exist teachers who do not feel pedagogically and technically competent enough to integrate ICT into learning process. There is no doubt that it is of great importance to decide how and when to use technology in pedagogically principled way. The book   <em>Integrating Information and Communication Technologies in English for Specific Purposes </em>is for readers and educators who seek pedagogically appropriate ways of integrating technology in the practice of English for specific purposes (ESP), English for academic purposes (EAP), and English for occupational purposes (EOP).</p>

The Figmentum Project

2011 ◽  
pp. 144-157
Author(s):  
Colleen Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Generative Art ◽  
Real World Setting ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter explores how we may design located information and communication technologies (ICTs) to foster community sentiment. It focuses explicitly on possibilities for ICTs to create new modalities of place through exploring key factors such as shared experiences, shared knowledge and shared authorship. To contextualise this discussion in a real world setting, this chapter presents FIGMENTUM, a situated generative art application that was developed for and installed in a new urban development. FIGMENTUM is a non-service based application that aims to trigger emotional and representational place-based communities. Out of this practice-led research comes a theory and a process for designing creative place-based ICTs to animate our urban communities.

Application of ICT in effective crisis management: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 591-606
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Fazeli, PhD ◽  
Azamossadat Hosseini, PhD ◽  
Farkhondeh Asadi, PhD ◽  
Hassan Haghighi, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
And Control ◽  
Crisis Managers

Introduction: Effective crisis management can reduce the costs and consequences of a crisis and has a significant impact on saving human lives in critical situations. Proper use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can improve all crisis management phases and crisis communication cycles according to the needs of stakeholders. The purpose of this review article is to identify which ICTs have been used in effective crisis management and what managerial tasks they support.Method: A systematic review was conducted based on PRISMA protocol. The investigated articles that have been published in English were all indexed in PubMed, Science Direct, IEEE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases from 2005 to 2019. The keywords searched were “Crisis Management,” “Emergency Management,” “Information and Communication Technology,” and their synonyms.Results: A total of 1,703 articles were retrieved, and 81 articles that met the inclusion criteria were retained. In terms of content, there were 54 case studies/review articles, 38 proposals, and seven prototypes among which 18 case studies and proposals were the same. According to surveys, 18 ICT tools and technologies have been used in effective crisis management with the purpose of supporting managerial tasks such as situation assessment, decision-making, coordination/command and control, communication with the public, and supply of basic services in order to enable crisis management and logistics.Conclusion: This study showed that proper use of ICT can help crisis managers optimize their performance that will consequently result in effective crisis management and the reduction of casualties. In the crisis management cycle, several tools and technologies have been used for various purposes, however; some crisis managers’ tasks were still not taken into consideration sufficiently, and thus, some recommendations for further research in this field were provided.

The E-Planning Paradigm – Theory, Methods and Tools

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Nunes Silva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Way

The chapter discusses the relationships between planning theory and the use of information and communication technologies in urban planning. It explores how recent organizational transformations in urban planning, associated with the widespread use of information and communication technologies, are incorporated by different planning theories. It is argued that the way information and communication technologies tools are considered or included by the different planning perspectives is in part responsible for the various forms of e-planning.

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