This paper introduces the concept of Social Media Geographic Information\ud (SMGI) as an emergent pluralist source of information which – it is\ud argued- may find valuable application in spatial planning and Geodesign. On\ud the base of empirical research, the author proposes a tentative framework for\ud SMGI Analytics in spatial planning. Among other methods, Spatial-Temporal\ud Textual Analysis (STTx) is proposed as a tool to investigate people perceptions\ud and interest in space and time. Possible implications and benefits of SMGI analytics\ud for the planning practice emerge from the overall discussion
This contribution reports on ongoing research carried on by the authors on the role of Social Media Geographic Information in spatial planning, design, and decision-making. Explicit and Implicit Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) from social media platforms, namely Social Media Geographic Information (SMGI) resources, were used to explore novel methods and tools for analysis and knowledge construction. The results concern three main research streams carried on with the common feature of integrating social media and other volunteered and authoritative sources of information from Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). These findings demonstrated that the integration of SMGI with more traditional Authoritative Geographic Information (A-GI) may offer a high potential for eliciting pluralist knowledge for spatial planning.
Abstract:is study analyzes the inter-municipal commuting systems of the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily, employing weighted network analysis technique. Based on the results obtained for the Sardinian commuting network, the network analysis is used to identify similarities and dissimilarities between the two systems.
This contribution introduces the concept of Social Media Geographic Information (SMGI) as a specific type of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Unlike other kind of VGI, which may originate from geographic measurements crowdsourcing, SMGI brings in addition a special potential for it may express community perceptions, interests, needs, and behaviors. Hence, SMGI may represent an unprecedented resource for expressing pluralism in such domains as spatial planning, where it may convey the community collective preferences contributing to enrich knowledge able to inform design and decision making. In the light of these assumptions, the main issues relevant for SMGI collection and analytics are presented from the perspective of the spatial planning and governance domain, and a framework for the SMGI analytics in planning, design, and decision making is proposed.
In this paper we present the findings of a study undertaken by the Joint Research\ud Centre of the European Commission in collaboration with the regional authority of\ud Lombardy, in northern Italy, on the socioeconomic impact of the spatial data infrastructure\ud (SDI) of that region. The study took place in 2009 and focused primarily on assessing the\ud benefits of the SDI to the organisations outside public administration, that is, developers\ud and consultants involved in planning, design, and impact assessment. We report the\ud results of two surveys undertaken in 2009. The first addressed consultants involved in\ud the preparation of environmental impact assessments and strategic environmental\ud assessments, and found significant economic and policy benefits resulting from the use\ud of the regional SDI. The second survey focused on professionals involved in planning\ud and design (architects, engineers, planners) and found a much more varied landscape\ud characterised by lack of awareness and skill in taking advantage of the new infrastructure\ud of analytical tools. The results of this study demonstrate that the maturity reached by\ud some of the existing SDIs now makes it possible to evaluate tangible benefits, and act as an\ud incentive to analyse further how SDIs are producing positive externalities. The knowledge\ud gained by monitoring the impacts of on-going SDI initiatives can be used to justify\ud investments ex post, and inform further SDI development and wider positive impacts
In the last decades green infrastructure planning, design, and management have been widely recognized as a way to contribute to reach higher levels of sustainability of development. However, often green infrastructures are considered in a sectoral way, while their design should be more integrated within comprehensive planning and design. The paper proposes the use of geodesign methods and technology to support the early phases of integrated strategic territorial planning, in order to enrich the relationships between the design of green infrastructure and of the other relevant systems via more comprehensive planning and design, and by applying systems thinking. A case study developed with architecture and engineering students under the umbrella of the International Geodesign Collaboration is used, to demonstrate how with intensive geodesign workshops it is possible to create spatially explicit design scenarios which take into account the relationships between green infrastructure and other territorial systems and dynamics. A set of analyses on the case study results of the two scales is used to demonstrate the assumption. It is also argued that geodesign intensive workshops can, in a very short time, contribute to raising the awareness among the participants of collaborative design to the importance of green infrastructure in strategic territorial planning.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1820 2 of 22 movement [4]. Connectivity and multi-functionality are considered key characteristics for the GI to remain resilient to change [1,5]. The first characteristic is related to the need of biotic functional groups to have not only high-quality living and restoration space (i.e., core areas), but also to be able to move across patches in order to support genetic diversity [6]. The second characteristic concerns the ability of a GI to perform several functions in the same spatial area related to the provision of a variety of Ecosystem Services (ESs), serving a range of functions for both nature and society.Due to its multi-sectorial nature, GI requires a holistic and cross-sectorial approach to spatial planning in order to both stimulating possible synergies and coordinating initiatives, and to avoid the consequent risk of conflicts between objectives related to different goals [1]. recognize the central role of GI in guiding the early stage of the planning process across the different levels (i.e., regional, municipal and project scale) and proposed a reform of the legal framework of landscape and urban planning at the Autonomous Region of Valencia by identifying a unique GI as an ecological-based tool to overcome fragmentation and to interconnect all the different policies concerning landscape protection. Over the last decades a wide range of GI projects have been carried out on local, regional, national and trans-boundary levels, highlighting the necessity for projects defined in different scales to be closely interconnected and coordinated in order to maximize the GI benefits.Green infrastructure can be reinforced through str...
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