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  This volume presents cases studies of applications of Geotechnology such as Geography Information Systems, virtual reality and cellular automaton and multi-agent systems in the field of urban planning and design. These are joint research presentations with students and colleagues from Asian universities in Japan and China. All these case studies refer to their application in Japanese or Chinese cities, which are on-field examples reflecting the enormous spread of geo-computation technology. Nevertheless, the concepts have wide applicability to other contexts. The studies can be classified into three types of Geotechnological applications at different levels in urban spaces, which are relevant to different kinds of urban planning and development projects. The book is comprised of three parts: Part 1: Geosimulation and land use plan Part 2: Geo Visualization and urban design Part 3: Geography information system and planning support.

City planning -- Computer simulation. --- Geographic information systems. --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Cartography --- Architecture --- City planning. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Geography. --- Geographical information systems. --- Remote sensing. --- Environmental management. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal

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This book describes a comprehensive framework of novel simulation approaches, conventional urban models, and related data mining techniques that will help develop planning support systems in Beijing as well as other mega-metropolitan areas. It investigates the relationships between human behaviors and spatial patterns in order to simulate activities in an urban space, visualize planning alternatives, and support decision making. The book first explains urban space using geometric patterns, such as points, networks, and polygons, that help identify patterns of household and individual human behavior. Next, it details how novel simulation methodologies, such as cellular automaton and multi-agent systems, and conventional urban modeling, such as spatial interaction models, can be used to identify an optimal or a simulated solution for a better urban form. The book develops a comprehensive land use and transportation integrated model used to explore the spatial patterns of mutual interaction between human mobility and urban space. This model can help forecast the distribution of different types of households, rent prices, and land prices, as well as the distribution of routes and traffic volume based on an appraisal of labor demand and supply. This book shows how geospatial analysis can be a useful tool for planners and decision makers to help in ascertaining patterns of activities and support urban planning. Offering both novel and conventional approaches to urban modeling, it will appeal to researchers, students, and policy makers looking for the optimal way to plan the d evelopment of a mega-metropolitan area.

Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- City planning --- Geographic information systems. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Social sciences. --- Geographical information systems. --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- Environmental management. --- Human geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Environmental Management. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Landscape protection --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Human ecology

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Urban areas face daunting environmental, economic and social challenges that have increased in scope in recent years, especially given climate change and globalization. At the same time, cities provide exciting opportunities for growth and revitalization of local and national economies. The interplay of these challenges and opportunities create important tasks for policymakers and researchers. This book provides a new horizon for exploring solutions to urban problems, especially water-related disasters in urban areas. It is of a cross-disciplinary nature offering both new concepts and practices that will help to promote communication between urban planning communities and water management professionals in order to integrate water-related disaster management into spatial planning. .

Flood damage prevention. --- Sustainable development. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental pollution. --- Sustainable Development. --- Environmental Management. --- Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects --- Water pollution. --- Aquatic pollution --- Fresh water --- Fresh water pollution --- Freshwater pollution --- Inland water pollution --- Lake pollution --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- River pollution --- Rivers --- Stream pollution --- Water contamination --- Water pollutants --- Water pollution --- Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.

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This book introduces planning support systems by combining policy decision-making process with the mechanism of urban spatial or functional development regarding to the planning policies on strategic level. By analyzing policy interactions between household agents, the book concentrates on visualizing and forecasting macro phenomenon of policy effects through revealing the discrete, micro human behaviors around the urban functions of dwelling, recreation, working, and transportation. Simulations are created based on these policy outcome assessments, taking into account the influences of energy and resource consumption and CO2 emission on sustainable development in urban environments. The book is geared towards researchers, universities, and urban policy makers. The book begins by presenting a framework of urban growth simulation, and introducing Spatial Strategic Planning Support System (SSP-SS). Then, household lifecycle and relocation models are employed for simulating policy impacts on urbanization, and investigating the impacts of spatial strategic planning. Several projects are assessed using agent-based modeling including shopping centre construction, day-care service for aging populations, and developing of "bus city" for reducing transportation CO2 emission. The final chapter identifies the key planning factors that play effective roles on reducing carbon emission in urban master plan by simulating the carbon emission volume in urban area.

Geographic information systems. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography --- Environmental sciences --- Geography. --- Computer science. --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Environmental Social Sciences. --- Regional Geography. --- Computer Science. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Geographical Information System. --- Social aspects. --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Informatics --- Science --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Government policy

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In the era of big data, this book explores the new challenges of urban-rural planning and management from a practical perspective based on a multidisciplinary project. Researchers as contributors to this book have accomplished their projects by using big data and relevant data mining technologies for investigating the possibilities of big data, such as that obtained through cell phones, social network systems and smart cards instead of conventional survey data for urban planning support. This book showcases active researchers who share their experiences and ideas on human mobility, accessibility and recognition of places, connectivity of transportation and urban structure in order to provide effective analytic and forecasting tools for smart city planning and design solutions in China.

Relation between energy and economics --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- Transport. Traffic --- Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Environmental planning --- Economic geography --- Geography --- energiebeheer (technologie) --- energiemanagement (economie) --- energiebeleid --- energie-economie --- datamining --- ruimtelijke ordening --- waterbehandeling --- Smart City --- big data --- economie --- waterverontreiniging --- transport --- geografie --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- data acquisition --- China