Digital land : integrating technology into the land planning process / James L. Sipes, Mark S. Lindhult.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sipes, James L.

Contributor:

Lindhult, Mark S.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Planning--Data processing.

Land use.

Land use--Planning.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2007]

Summary:

The land planning process is a complex activity. Fortunately, an array of powerful tools are now available for performing the multitude of tasks that face the planner, from evaluating design alternatives for a particular use to visualizing the impact of a development proposal. This book introduces land planning professionals and those lay people interested in land planning decisions to the current technologies and how they can be applied in building a framework for planning and design as well as representing concepts and final proposals.

A guide for both practitioners trained in traditional hand techniques and for newer planners and students trained in digital techniques but lacking a clear understanding of process, Digital Land: Integrating Technology into the Land Planning Process: Provides you with a range of sources where you can find digital data, Illustrates how to share, store, and manage data, and identifies the issues that you must confront-scale, data accuracy, resolution-before the data can be put to use, Describes the major categories of digital tools for processing data and guides you on how to choose the right tool, Outlines strategies and contexts for integrating the tools holistically into the decision-making process.

Tools covered include: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 3D modeling, rendering, and animation, Multimedia, Web technology, and digital video, Image processing and more. Professional planners and designers, interested citizens, decision makers, resource managers, earth scientists, and students will benefit from this guide to the new tools for land planning-tools that allow you to see things you couldn't see before, incorporate data that was once inaccessible, make decisions based upon more than intuition, and explore the widest range of alternatives possible.

Contents:

Image Credits vii

Framework for Understanding Digital Data 2

Stakeholders in the Planning and Design Process 7

Digital Tools for the Land Planning Process 13

Chapter 2 Gathering Digital Data 19

The Need for Valid Data 20

Database Management System Software 23

Geospatial Data 25

Democratization of Data 42

Mining for Data 50

Digital Terrain and 3D Landforms 51

Site Surveys 60

Global Positioning System Technology 63

Data Acquisition, Costs, and Management 70

Chapter 3 Sharing, Storing, and Managing Data Networking 73

Networking 74

Wireless Technology 76

Storage and Backup 79

Disaster Recovery Planning 83

Managing CAD Data 83

Case Study: Sasaki Associates 90

Case Study: Geller Devellis, Inc. 93

Chapter 4 Processing Digital Data 99

Management and Production 99

Importance of the Internet to the Design Community 112

Visualizing the Land 114

Case Study: Burlington Project 131

Chapter 5 Integrating Digital Data 139

Creating Maps 140

CAD/GIS Integration 165

Processing Images 173

Tools for Urban Planning 177

Case Study: Using Google Earth to Share Geospatial Information 181

Community Mapping 187

Interactive Web Technology: Public Participation in Cyberspace 196

Dynamic Graphics 201

Case Study: Sasaki Strategies 203

Integrating Scientific Modeling and Simulations 205

Case Study: Geller Devellis 208

Trends 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

ISBN:

0471722286

9780471722281

OCLC:

76902012