Multimedia GIS for Planning Support and Public Discourse

Shiffer, Michael J.

doi:10.1559/152304098782594562

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“…This confirms research that shows community groups encounter difficulties in learning and maintaining computer systems even if they can afford the initial investment (Cordero 1991;Rubinyi 1989). Shiffer (1998) writes that although community groups are becoming more technologically autonomous, they "will likely need expert help to get started and to conduct spatial analyses that rely on sophisticated tools. The information infrastructure itself will continue to require specialized skills in the foreseeable future" (p. 94).…”

Section: Visualization Tools and Planningsupporting

confidence: 66%

“…In discussing a particular neighborhood with a large group of individuals who are trying to orient themselves, computer visualization quickly moves the discussion beyond "where are we" and "what is there" toward more meaningful discussions of how something is likely to change (Talen 2000). Shiffer (1998) reports actual cases where groups spent less time talking about the physical characteristics of an area and more time exploring the visual implications of change.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Visualization Tools and Methods in Community Planning: From Freehand Sketches to Virtual Reality

Al‐Kodmany

2002

Journal of Planning Literature

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As new computerized visualization tools become available, planning professionals who engage in public participation planning must have a practical understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of each tool in order to choose the ones appropriate for a given context. This article reviews both traditional and computerized visualization tools and attempts to provide a general map for planners as they navigate through the multitude of options that currently exist for visualization in public participation planning. The article is organized around a conceptual model that shows the relationship between eight visualization tools (four traditional and four computerized) and two types of communication media.Although the advent of computerized visualization has drawn new attention to the ways in which complex information can be communicated, visualization itself is not a new phenomenon. Visualization has been used in maps, scientific drawings, and data plots for more than one thousand years. In his books on visualization, Edward Tufte (1997, 1990, 1983) has provided numerous examples of premodern visualization masterpieces. Tufte lucidly describes and illustrates universal design concepts for visualizing numbers, nouns, motion, process, explanations, and narratives. He provides general principles that have specific visual consequences governing the design of data representations. Most of these concepts carry over easily into computer visualization. The use of color, line, images, and layering, for instance, form a foundation for understanding and presenting complex data. He writes, "By extending the visual capacities of paper, video and computer screen, we are able to extend the depth of our own knowledge and experience" (Tufte 1997, 10).Visual images give us instant clues to information. Scientists such as Feldman et al. (1989) report that an estimated one-third of the human brain is devoted to vision and visual memory. Engaging that sense can help scientists and nonscientists alike better understand complex natural phenomena. Reduced to visual imagery,is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches geographic information systems, urban data visualizations, Web-based applications, and urban design. Previously, he worked for the company of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago, where he designed projects in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. He has developed several online projects that integrate traditional and computerized visualization tools to create interactive environments that foster public participation. He has applied new planning tools and methods in a number of Chicago communities that have been underrepresented in public policy making in order to improve the quality of life in these communities.

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Section: Visualization Tools and Planningsupporting

confidence: 66%

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Visualization Tools and Methods in Community Planning: From Freehand Sketches to Virtual Reality

Al‐Kodmany

2002

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…But, most important of all, it must be a community-based GIS in which ownership of the data and their analyses must be vested in the people collectively. This is hardly the trend of GIS in the UK, the Netherlands or Australia (Masser 1998) but there is some movement in the right direction in the United States (Shiffer 1998).…”

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Teaching Geographical Information Handling Skills for Lower‐income Countries

Dunne

Atkins

Blakemore

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Transactions in GIS

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Geographical Information Systems are seen by many as a quick`fix' for the problems of lower-income countries and people in those countries have been encouraged to adopt this perception, along with the technology. As teachers of students from LICs, we seek to avoid reproducing a contextless transfer of technical skills and rather aim to promote an education based on the limitations of the technology and on the nature and construction of information. While identifying GIS as one of many components of`geographical information', we emphasise the importance of including`non-GIS' staff in the education process. We advocate a`problem-posing' approach to the teaching of`Geographical Information for Development' and discuss some of the challenges which this raises, both for teachers and students.

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“…The linkages between GIS and multimedia systems hold considerable potential for extending the knowledge base of GIS. 24 Current GIS is predominantly spatially deterministic in the sense that information that is fuzzy, or without a location, or that cannot be represented by a spatial primitive, is excluded from the knowledge base. Extending the ability to incorporate alternative forms and ways of knowing would overcome these deficiencies and sensitize GIS to the communities that are represented in them.…”

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Public Participation: Technology and Democracy

Al‐Kodmany

2000

Journal of Architectural Education

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Computerized visualization methods offer planners and architects some new ways to support and facilitate democratic decision‐making. However, the uses of this technology in public participation are just beginning to be explored. This paper describes a community planning process in which a combination of high‐ and low‐tech visualization methods—a Geographic Information System (GIS) and a human artist—was used to increase public participation and draw out local knowledge.

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Multimedia GIS for Planning Support and Public Discourse

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Visualization Tools and Methods in Community Planning: From Freehand Sketches to Virtual Reality

Visualization Tools and Methods in Community Planning: From Freehand Sketches to Virtual Reality

Teaching Geographical Information Handling Skills for Lower‐income Countries

Public Participation: Technology and Democracy

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