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Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning

Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning

Noted as an IGI Global Core Reference Title in Science & Engineering for 2019.

Carlos Nunes Silva (Geographer, Lisbon, Portugal)
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: February, 2015|Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 380
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8150-7
ISBN13: 9781466681507|ISBN10: 1466681500|EISBN13: 9781466681514
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Description:

Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. These innovations have led to new opportunities in this evolving profession.

Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning brings together the efficiency of web-based tools and digital technologies with the practice of spatial planning. Focusing on the utilization of geographic information systems, computer-assisted design, visualization concepts, and database management systems, this book is a pivotal reference source for planners, policymakers, researchers, and graduate students interested in how recent technological advancements are enhancing the traditional practices in urban planning.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Developed vs. Developing Countries
  • Geovisualization
  • Media and Communication
  • Mobile Applications
  • Social Movements
  • Virtual Reality
  • Web 2.0 Tools
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Editor Carlos Nunes Silva presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with a comprehensive examination of current issues, challenges, and opportunities in the evolving world of digital urban planning. The editor has organized the fourteen contributions that make up the main body of his text in four sections devoted to the role of web 2.0 in urban e-planning, web-based e-tools, urban social movements, and public space, modeling, virtual reality, and geovisualization, and the role of planners in urban e-planning reforms in developed countries and the challenges confronting urban e-planning in developing countries.

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Carlos Nunes Silva, Geographer, PhD, holds a degree in Geography (University of Coimbra), a post-graduation in European Studies (University of Coimbra - Faculty of Law), a master’s degree in Human Geography: Regional and Local Planning (University of Lisbon), and a PhD in Geography: Regional and Local Planning (University of Lisbon). Faculty member at the University of Lisbon, Portugal (1988-2024) and University of Aveiro, Portugal (1984-1988). His research interests focus mainly on urban and metropolitan governance, the history and theory of urban planning, urban planning in Africa, urban e-planning, urban planning ethics, local government policies, local e-government, and research methods. His publications include the books: 'Recent Advances and Prospects in Urban e-Planning’; 'Local Governance in Cape Verde 1970-2020'; ' Local Government and the COVID 19 Pandemic: A Global Perspective'; 'Trends and Innovations in Urban e-Planning'; 'Contemporary Trends in Local Governance: Reform, Cooperation and Citizen Participation'; 'Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning: Recent Developments and Critical Perspectives'; 'Local Governance in the New Urban Agenda'(co-edited); 'Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa'; 'New Approaches, Methods, and Tools in Urban e-Planning'; 'Governing Urban Africa'; 'Local Government and Urban Governance in Europe' (co-edited); 'Urban Planning in North Africa'; 'Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries'; 'Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning'; 'Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial and Postcolonial Planning Cultures'; 'Fiscal Austerity and Innovation in Local Governance in Europe' (co-edited); 'Citizen e-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity'; 'Online Research Methods in Urban and Planning Studies: Design and Outcomes'; 'Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICT for Urban Development and Monitoring'; 'Portugal: Sistema de Govern Local'; and 'Política Urbana em Lisboa, 1926-1974'. He is member of the Editorial Board of 'Planning Perspectives', 'Digital Government: Research and Practice', 'Journal of Urban Planning and Development', and 'International Journal of E-Government Research', and former member of the editorial board of the 'Journal of Information Technology & Politics'. He is the founding editor of the Springer book series 'Local and Urban Governance', and the founding editor-in-chief of the ‘International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)’. He was Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Governance, in 2016-2020 and in 2020-2024, and is an honorary member of its Steering Committee in 2024-2028. He is a member of the AAG - American Association of Geographers, and a member of the IPHS - International Planning History Society.
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