Call for papers - Urban and Regional Modeling versus Planning Practice: Bridging the Gap

[NordGISci Coordinator]

URISA Journal Special Issue
Call for papers
http://fromto.hig.se/~bjg/urisa/

Urban and Regional Modeling versus Planning Practice: Bridging the Gap
Rapid evolution reinforced the use of GIS in spatial planning, both by
the professional planners and by the general public on the way to the
participation planning and democratic decision making. GIS is now
commonly accepted as a default planning platform. Urban and regional
plans are based on numerous layers of GIS information on population
and infrastructure, and are expressed with the series of layers of
constraints, preferences and scenarios. In parallel, GIS-based
information on the land-uses, residential patterns or transportation
is a basis for spatially explicit dynamic models of urban and regional
development. The plans aim at implementing planner's view of
"desirable future"; the dynamic models aim to capture the major
factors that govern urban and regional development and investigating
system's "possible futures".
The goal of the special issue is to bring together the experts in the
fields of planning and urban and regional modeling to address
"desirable" and "possible" urban and regional futures and to present
the state-of-the-art in rapidly developing domain of planning-oriented
spatially explicit urban and regional modeling.

We solicit original research papers on, but not limited to:
· Practically oriented geosimulation models of urban and regional
development
· GIS-based evaluation of the past urban and regional plans versus
reality
· The use of the models of land-use/land-cover change in planning
practice
· High-resolution (or fine-scale) modeling of urban transport and
transportation
· Advances in spatial decision support systems and their uses for
urban and regional planning
· Planning-support environments and the experience of their use for
the real-world problems
· Scenario-based planning and forecasting

Submission:
The abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=urisaj2011, but
first register yourself as Author. Email your questions to
urisa...@easychair.org

Important dates:
Letter of intention and one-page abstracts: February 15, 2011
Notification of accepting of abstracts: March 01, 2011
Full papers: June 01, 2011

Guest Editors:
Itzhak Benenson, Tel Aviv University, http://www.tau.ac.il/~bennya/
Bin Jiang, University of Gävle, http://fromto.hig.se/~bjg/