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A Planning Support Toolkit

planning support system,Prediction,regional planning,urban planning,analysis

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An impressive array of planning support systems has been developed and employed around the world as described in several edited volumes including Brail and Klosterman (2001), Geertman and Stillwell (2003) and Brail (2008). Unfortunately, these systems have not been widely used in planning practice for several reasons identified in the literature. Experience suggests that most PSS provide sophisticated analysis and spatial modeling systems that do not meet user’s needs (Vonk, Geertman, and Schot 2007). Partially as a result, there is little awareness of, and practical experience, with PSS among planning practitioners (Von, Geeertman and Schot (2005).

This paper illustrates a different approach to PSS development. It describes a collection of planning support tools that abandon the attempt to develop sophisticated, complex and expensive models for simple. easy-to-use urban and regional analysis and projection methods at the core of planning practice. It similarly avoids sophisticated “cutting edge” technologies by employing only the ubiquitous Microsoft Excel and freely available open source QGIS.

Methods provided in the tool set include: (1) demographic and economic analysis tools such as location quotients, Gini coefficients and population pyramids; (2) trend, share, and cohort component projection methods; and (3) and vector land suitability analysis. The methods are thoroughly described and applied to a real community in a recently published text (Klosterman et al, 2018), which identifies data sources for applying the methods in the United States. The paper describes and illustrates the analysis and projection tools and considers their advantages and limitations for planning education and practice.



References

Brail, Richard K., and Richard E. Klosterman, eds. 2001. Planning support systems: Integrating geographic information systems, models and visualization tools. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Brail, Richard K, ed. 2008. Planning support systems for cities and regions. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Geertman, Stan, and John Stillwell. 2003. Planning support systems in practice. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Klosterman, Richard E., Kerry Brooks, Joshua Drucker, Edward Feser, and Henry Renski. 2018. Planning support methods: Urban and regional analysis and projection. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.

Vonk, Guido, Stan Geertman, and Paul Schot. 2005. "Bootlenecks blocking widespread usage of planning support systems." Environment and Planning, A 37:909-924.

Vonk, Guido, Stan Geertman, and Paul Schot. 2007. "New technologies stuck in old heirarchies: The diffusion of geo-information technologies in Dutch public organizations." Public Administration Review 67:745-756.