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Online Urban Information Systems

Online Urban Information Systems

Tan Yigitcanlar, Omur Saygin
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781599048437|ISBN10: 1599048434|EISBN13: 9781599048444
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-843-7.ch078
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Yigitcanlar, Tan, and Omur Saygin. "Online Urban Information Systems." Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies, edited by Frederic Adam and Patrick Humphreys, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 699-708. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-843-7.ch078

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Yigitcanlar, T. & Saygin, O. (2008). Online Urban Information Systems. In F. Adam & P. Humphreys (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies (pp. 699-708). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-843-7.ch078

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Yigitcanlar, Tan, and Omur Saygin. "Online Urban Information Systems." In Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies, edited by Frederic Adam and Patrick Humphreys, 699-708. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-843-7.ch078

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Abstract

Countless factors affect the inner workings of a city, so in an attempt to gain an understanding of place and making sound decisions, planners need to utilize decision support systems (DSS) or planning support systems (PSS). PSS were originally developed as DSS in academia for experimental purposes, but like many other technologies, they became one of the most innovative technologies in parallel to rapid developments in software engineering as well as developments and advances in networks and hardware. Particularly, in the last decade, the awareness of PSS have been dramatically heightened with the increasing demand for a better, more reliable and furthermore a transparent decision-making process (Klosterman, Siebert, Hoque, Kim, & Parveen, 2003). Urban planning as an act has quite different perspective from the PSS point of view. The unique nature of planning requires that spatial dimension must be considered within the context of PSS. Additionally, the rapid changes in socio-economic structure cannot be easily monitored or controlled without an effective PSS.

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