Urban Planning and Geographic Information Systems

Ian Masser and Henk Ottens
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Ian Masser: ITC
Henk Ottens: Utrecht University

Chapter 2 in Geographical Information and Planning, 1999, pp 25-42 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The juxtapostion of words in the title reflects the sequence of the argument of this chapter. Urban planning comes first because it has a long history as an activity which makes extensive use of geographic information. This extends from the sanitary maps that were made by the precursors of the modern planners in the 1830s and 1840s in Britain and the United States to the multi-purpose, multi-user geographic information systems (GIS) that have been implemented in many of today’s cities. In many ways, the needs of planning have actually anticipated the development of GIS. For example, Lewis Keeble (1952) argues in his manual for the new generation of British planners created by the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, that: “There are two ways in which interrelated survey subjects can be compared: the first is by means of overlays, the second by means of combination or sieve maps” which suggest “the metaphorical straining of all the land in the area under consideration through a series of sieves — standards of unsuitability — that which passes through all the sieves being prima facie the most suitable for the purpose in question and that which passes through the fewest the least suitable” (Keeble 1952, p. 70).

Keywords: Urban Planning; Planning Agency; Spatial Data Infrastructure; Planning Support System; Country Planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-03954-0_2

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