Workshop on supporting the “actor-factor” in spatial planning
Friday September 22nd 2006, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
Location: Droevendaalsesteeg 3 (Building 101), Room Gaia 1
During the last decades, planners have become aware that spatial planning increasingly requires the involvement of several actors. The term sustainable planning has been coined to denote the necessity of achieving a consensus among actors over a spatial plan. Participative and interactive methods have been developed in sustainable planning, enabling planners to include the opinions, perceptions, and knowledge of actors with different backgrounds and levels of professionalism. Research work has been focussing on the development, design and application of tools that support such a trend in interactive multi-actor spatial planning. However, the appropriateness and effectiveness of these tools seem to be oxymoronic. This workshop aims at presenting and discussing original and novel approaches in interactive multi-actor spatial planning, and their application for the implementation of accompanying tools.
Programme
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10:00 |
Opening and introduction |
Arnold Bregt |
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10:15 |
What agents for what planning?
Building multi-agent system models for changing planning needs |
Helen Couclelis |
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11:15 |
Agent-Based Models of Spatial Events in Highly Controlled, Multi-Participant Situations: The Notting Hill Carnival Project |
Michael Batty
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12:15 |
Lunch Break |
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13:00 |
SimLandscape: serious gaming in Spatial Planning |
Rob de Waard
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13:45 |
A planner’s perspective |
Stan Geertman |
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14:30 |
Closing / Transfer to Aula |
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16:00 |
PhD defence |
Arend Ligtenberg |
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17:30 |
Reception |
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Aditional Papers/reports
Workshop summary (Monica Wachowicz)
About the speakers
Helen Couclelis is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a Doctorate from the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Utrecht. Prior to joining the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara in 1982, she spent several years as a professional planner and policy advisor in Greece. She has held visiting appointments at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Waterloo, the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.
The research interests of Dr. Couclelis are in the areas of geographic information science, urban and regional modeling and planning, spatial cognition, and the philosophy of science. Recent publications include work on models of urban dynamics, on the representation of spatial concepts in both human minds and in computers, and in the geography of the information society. She is a co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. She has co-edited A Ground for Common Search (with P. Gould and R.G. Golledge) and Geographic Information Research: Bridging the Atlantic (with M. Craglia). She was Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) from 1993 to 1996 and currently serves on the executive committee of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS).
Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he directs the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). From 1990 to 1995, he was Director of the NSF National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) in the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1979 until 1990, he was Professor of City and Regional Planning in the University of Wales at Cardiff. He is currently Chairman of the ESRC-JISC Census Advisory Committee and a member of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information (HMSO/Cabinet Office). From 1997 to 2003, he was a member of the Association of Universities of the Netherlands (VSNU-NWO-KNAW) Quality Assessment of Research (RAE) Panel for the Built Environment acting as Chair at TU-Delft in 2003. He is currently a member of the RAE 2008 Geography Panel.His research work involves the development of computer models of cities and regions, and he has published many books and articles in this area, the most recent being Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005) and an edited volume GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modeling (ESRI Press, Redlands, CA, 2005). He is editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. The work of his group can be seen on the web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ and at http://www.casabook.com/. He has received various honours for his work. In 1999, he was awarded the Sir George Back Award by the Royal Geographical Society for ‘contributions to national policy and practice in planning and city design’, the Association of Geographic Information Award for Technological Progress (1998) and for Innovation (2002). He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2004 for ‘services to geography’.
Rob de Waard studied Civil Engineering at the Technical University Delft and Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University. He participated in agro-ecological research at the University of Adelaide and designed several gardens. Back in the Netherlands he started a successful consultancy agency in Wageningen specialized in spatial planning and geographic information systems. Starting from 2000 he combined this work with a PhD research at the Technical University Eindhoven from which he received a degree in 2005. His research interests are in the areas of spatial planning, discussion support systems and serious gaming. He has initiated SimLandscape, a joint research project of the Nieuwland Consultancy Agency, Technical University Eindhoven, Wageningen University & Research Centre, the Dutch cadastre, and several Dutch municipalities. The SimLandscape project is aimed at developing a serious game that enable citizens to actively participate in spatial planning processes.
Stan Geertman is associate professor in geographical information science at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and holds a senior tenure position at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences. Moreover, he was for many years director of Nexpri – the Netherlands Centre of Geographical Information – situated at Utrecht University and involved in Geo-ICT related commercial research for a wide diversity of private and public organisations. Since two years he is detached for one day a week at the ITC in Enschede, the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation. Moreover, he is Programme Director of MSc GIMA, an interuniversity Master of Science programme in Geographical Information Management and Applications. He holds a MSc in Spatial Planning from the University of Nijmegen (‘Spatial Information Systems and Local Plans’ – 1986) and a Ph.D. from Utrecht University (‘Spatial Planning and Geographical Information; a search for Geo-IT methodology’ – 1996). Besides his teaching activities his primary field of research is the development and application of advanced geo-information related instruments to support planning practice. In particular so-called Planning Support Systems (PSS) and spatial simulation models constitute his prime field of interest. This has resulted in a wide variety of national and especially international books, articles, (keynote) speeches, conference boards, book reviews.
PhD Defence
Starting at 16:00 till 17:30 Arend Ligtenberg will defend his dissertation entitled: “Exploring the use of Multi-Agent Systems for Interactive Multi-Actor Spatial Planning”. The defence will take place in the “Aula” of Wageningen University. Please find enclosed a description of the route.
Registration
The defence of the dissertation is public. To attend the workshop registration is appreciated. To register please send an e-mail to Antoinette.Stoffers@wur.nl. Please state your name and the name of your organisation.
Location
Alterra, Centre for Geo-information, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, Wageningen. The name of the building is GAIA. The room is GAIA 1
By public transport
Line 86 from the train station Ede-Wageningen to Droevendaalsesteeg.
By car
A12 Arnhem-Utrecht, exit 24 to Wageningen. Follow “Mansholtlaan” till the roundabout. On the roundabout turn right.
“Aula” Wageningen UR
Generaal Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen
By public transport
On the roundabout (Droevendaalsesteeg / Mansholtlaan) take the bus to the bus station in the centre of Wageningen. Leaving the bus station cross the “Lawickse Allee” and proceed to the “Bevrijdingsstraat”. At the end of the “Bevrijdingsstraat” (200 m.) turn left (5 Mei Plein) and go upwards to the “Generaal Foulkesweg” The “Aula” is situated immediately at your left side.
By car
At the roundabout go straight on (coming from the direction Ede). Continue straight on, passing a crossing with traffic lights, two roundabouts and yet another crossing with traffic lights. Turn right about 400 meters after this crossing into the “Generaal Foulkesweg”. At the end of the “Generaal Foulkesweg”, just before a sharp left turn, you will find the “Aula”.
This workshop is sponsored by the research schools Mansholt and PE&RC.
