Spatial planning of sports infrastructure

Spatial planning for multifunctional green infrastructure: Growing resilience in Detroit

Cities are expanding green infrastructure to enhance resilience and ecosystem services. Although green infrastructure is promoted for its multifunctionality, projects are typically sited based on a particular benefit, such as stormwater abatement, rather than a suite of socio-economic and environmental benefits. This stems in part from the lack of stakeholder-informed, city-scale approaches to ...

Building a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure to Support Marine Spatial Planning in U.s. Waters

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is emerging as a practical process to help achieve the ecological, economic, and societal objectives of U.S. ocean management. Coastal and ocean data have unique challenges that need to be addressed. Ambulatory boundaries, 4-D data needs, and difficulty acquiring these data in the marine environment are some of the challenges not traditionally faced by land-based p...

Building Spatial Knowledge Infrastructure

The author in the first part would like to share his experiences of a European Union sponsored LEONARDO da VINCI project – Land Information Management for Executives (LIME) co-ordinated by the College of Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary (GEO). The LIME outcomes were a knowledge resource centre and an Internet-supported distributed education service for the Hungarian Land Administratio...

Spatial Data Infrastructure

In the analogue era, concern for spatial data and its distribution were tasks for mapping organisations earning a reputation for producing quality products based on their spatial characteristics, including their visualisation in printed map form to be used for many different types of problems. In contrast, from the second half of the twentieth century onwards, with the developments in computer ...

Chapter 8: Planning, Spatial Structure of Cities and Provision of Infrastructure