Identifying strengths and weaknesses of landscape visualisation for effective communication of future alternatives

Pettit, Christopher; Raymond, Christopher M.; Bryan, Brett A.; Lewis, Hayden

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.01.001

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“…The questionnaire asked questions about how residents perceived CFG as a potential park management practice in their local park. Using a mixture of photos and text to provide broad descriptions of CFG [70], the questionnaire also asked whether residents would get involved in CFG as a management practice. We defined groups of specific interest to this study as part of our analytical framework, given the nature of the research questions we are asking.…”

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confidence: 99%

Community Food Growing in Parks? Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility in Sheffield, UK

Nam

Dempsey

2018

Sustainability

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Urbanisation brings with it increased pressure on land and land uses, particularly green spaces. There has been considerable interest in community food growing in green spaces as part of a wide trend for gardening in the UK, which has been found to bring social, health, and well-being benefits. Such activity tends to take place in community-managed gardens and allotments. In light of the context of austerity within which local authority parks departments currently operate, this study tested the acceptability and feasibility of parks as a potential urban setting for Community Food Growing (CFG) in Sheffield, UK. Employing a combination of resident questionnaires and interviews with community groups and professionals, the study results showed localised differences in the acceptability and feasibility of CFG. Residents' propensity to want to get involved in CFG differed by age and household composition, which, if acted on across the city, could significantly change the demographic make-up of parks-based community groups in the city. Barriers to CFG in parks were described by community groups and park managers as security and vandalism, need for resources, and undue pressure on the local authority as land-owner. We discuss the emergent questions around who is best placed to manage urban parks, particularly when the public sector is subject to stringent austerity budget measures. The paper concludes with commentary and recommendations about the importance of governance arrangements if CFG is to be included as part of the activities supported and managed in urban parks.

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Community Food Growing in Parks? Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility in Sheffield, UK

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Dempsey

2018

Sustainability

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“…However, a community resident's experience of "what things may look like" is likely to be greatly improved when three-dimensional (3D) views and animations are presented (Pettit, Raymond, Bryan, & Lewis, 2011;Sheppard & Cizek, 2009). Consequently, 3D views may help reach decisions for or against a project faster, and may help to select between different planning alternatives.…”

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Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs

Steiniger

Poorazizi

Hunter

2016

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Citizen participation should be an essential part of an urban planning process if the needs of the local population are to be addressed. Citizen participation should also improve acceptance of private construction projects by residents that live in or near such development. A complementary form of citizen participation to public planning meetings is to permit citizen engagement via Web 2.0 technologies, which also has the potential to get citizens involved that are usually difficult to reach. We aim to build a social, i.e. participatory, planning platform that allows technology savvy citizens to inform themselves of future and ongoing development projects and to also discuss them online. In this work we discuss the functional needs and context-of-use constraints of such an e-planning platform. A conceptual model of the technical architecture is outlined and a prototype implementation is presented. This prototype is built on free and open source software components, including a social network, to enable platform adoption in other locations. Finally, we discuss the research needs that are to be addressed if the development of participatory e-planning platforms should advance.

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“…The visualization of existing and future natural environments is becoming more important for decisionmaking, as well as for recreational and scientific communication, as it considerably helps to better understand the various spatial relations in an environment [1,2]. This is an important topic for ecologists who are focusing on developing ecological models that can predict how an environment develops in the future.…”

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Procedural generation and interactive web visualization of natural environments

Onrust

Bidarra

Rooseboom

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on 3D Web Technology

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Interactive 3D visualization of natural environments can help ecologists, policy makers and the broad public in general to better understand, promote and protect both existing and developing environments. The creation and exploration of virtual worlds can be very helpful for this purpose. However, current techniques are not able to generate sound complex natural environments from ecological data for the use of interactive webbased visualizations. In this thesis, we approach the challenge of developing and interactively visualizing in real time ecologically accurate and visually convincing models of complex natural environments over the web. For this, we propose a framework that (i) is able to combine landscape maps and ecological statistical data, translating them to an ecologically sound plant distribution, and (ii) creates a detailed 3D representation of the natural environment and provides for its fully interactive visualization in real-time over the web. The main contributions of this research are a procedural method to generate complete and sound natural environments and a web-based renderer that is able to real-time visualize complex natural environments with their high density and variability of individual organisms. The vegetation model combines and improves techniques from procedural ecosystem generation and neutral landscape modeling. It is able to generate diverse ecological sound plant distribution directly from landscape maps with statistics about coverage and patchiness of plant species. The visualization model uses several existing level-of-detail and illumination techniques to achieve interactive frame rates and improve realism. Validation of the results with ecology experts led us to conclude that our framework provides convincing interactive visualizations of large virtual natural environments.iii

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Identifying strengths and weaknesses of landscape visualisation for effective communication of future alternatives

Cited by 95 publications

References 52 publications

Community Food Growing in Parks? Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility in Sheffield, UK

Community Food Growing in Parks? Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility in Sheffield, UK

Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs

Procedural generation and interactive web visualization of natural environments

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