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Editor Richard K. Brail has brought together the wisest of the field’s thinkers, the most inventive of the toolmakers, the most experienced of those working at the interface with real clients, and the most battle-seasoned practicing planners (and many of these individuals occupy more than one of these niches). Together they present a broad view of support systems, in-depth developmental histories of the most important models and tools as told by their creators, and a provocative, in-the-trenches critique of the state of the art.
Richard K. Brail is professor emeritus at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. His research interests include the applications of information technology in urban planning, geographic information and planning support systems, and urban transportation. He is former chair and program director of the urban planning program and founding director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers.
Foreword, Armando Carbonell
Introduction, Richard K. Brail
Section 1: A Broader Perspective
1. Planning Support Systems: Progress, Predictions, and Speculations on the Shape of Things to Come, Michael Batty
2. Disseminating Spatial Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning, Harry Timmermans
Section 2: The Regional Scale
3. A Decade of Cellular Urban Modeling with SLEUTH: Unresolved Issues and Problems, Keith C. Clarke
4. Simulating Regional Futures: The Land-use Evolution and impact Assessment Model (LEAM), Brian Deal and Varkki Pallathucheril
5. A New Tool for a New Planning: The What if?? Planning Support System, Richard E. Klosterman
Section 3: Moving from Region to City
6. UrbanSim: An Evolving Planning Support System for Evolving Communities, Paul Waddell, Xuan Liu, and Liming Wang
7. Clicking Toward Better Outcomes: Experience with INDEX, 1994 to 2006, Eliot Allen
8. Communities in Control: Developing Local Models Using CommunityViz®, George Janes and Michael Kwartler
9. Development Control Planning Support Systems, Anthony G. O. Yeh
Section 4: Planning Support Systems in Practice
10. Planning Support Systems: A Planner’s Perspective, Stan Geertman
11. Planning Support Systems: What Are Practicing Planners Looking For?, Terry Moore