MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

11.522: Research Seminar on Planning Support Systems

Discussion Notes - Fall 2007

Tuesday, September 18

· Joe Ferreira: Empowering Communities Through Better Data Sharing

Tuesday, September 25

• Richard Klosterman: New Tools for a New Planning
  Related Paper: Klosterman, R., "Deliberating About the Future," Chapter 10 in Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans, and Projects, L. Hopkins and M. Zappata, editors, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, 2007.
  

Tuesday, October 2

• Filippo Dal Fiore, SENSEable City Lab: Digitally Augmented Cities
  

Tuesday, October 16

• Zhu Yi: GIS-based Job Accessibility Measurement and Related Commuting Patterns

Tuesday, October 23

• Wanli Fang: Urban Stormwater Simulation & Modeling

Tuesday, October 30

• Madhu C Dutta-Koehler - The role of PSS in the planning profession: do we need a normative framework?
  Readings: (1) Vonk, G. et al., "A SWOT Analysis of Planning Support Systems," EPA, v.39, 1699-1714.
  (2) Klosterman, R. et al., "An Update on Planning Support Systems," EPB v.32, 477-484.

Tuesday, November 6

• Emil Bayramov - Landscape Planning and Environmental Management in Azerbaijan using GIS

Tuesday, November 13

• Xiongjiu Liao - Industry Spatial Clustering within Metropolises:  Measurement, Detection, Inference and Determinants:

Tuesday, November 19

• Beaudry Kock - Making GIS tools available to agent-based modelers
• David Quinn - Combining Systems Dynamics and GIS

Tuesday, November 27

• Weifeng Li
• Diao Mi

Tuesday, December 4

• 2nd round presentations

Tuesday, December 11

• 2nd round presentations

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