Urban Planning and Development Applications of GIS

Dr. Ahmad BinTouqabintouq@uaeu.ac.ae

http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouq

GEO440: GIS for Urban & Regional Planning

Urban Planning Applications of GIS

GIS applications covers major application fields in urban planning and development:

- Regional planning

- Infrastructure management

(Transportation, public utilities, and storm water/waste)

- Resource management

- Environmental assessment

- Socioeconomic development

- Emergency management

- Education

Urban Planning Applications of GIS

• GIS can be applied to many types of problem.

• Among these are representatives of both raster and vector data base structures, both simple and complex analytical models.

• Master planning applications are one of them.

Urban Planning Applications of GIS

• Use for area monitoring, regional potential and feasibility analyses and site selection studies.

• GIS can also be helpful for the documentation of spatial plans and in the approval process for the development, building and installation permits.

Urban Planning Applications of GIS

• GIS applied to a wide range of land management and land use planning issues including the interpretation and formulation of land use policy.

• Land-use policy can be interpreted within GIS using a modeling approach.

Urban Planning Applications of GIS

• Output in the form of maps showing areas in which land-use changes are more likely to occur, and statistics, graphs and tables summarizing this information according to a variety of specified spatial units. Such output allows land-use implications to be discussed.

Urban Planning Applications of GIS

• GIS have become of increasing significance for environmental planning and assessment in recent years.

• One reason for this, a great number of spatial data with their attributes is involved in environmental planning.

Urban Planning Applications of GIS

• GIS can be used to develop natural and cultural resource inventory to identify pollution sources, to assess in selection of sites for land application of sewage waste.

• Suitability for several treatment techniques can be considered using soil, topographic and land use factors, integrated with information about the biological, chemical and physical properties of waste.

Urban Planning Applications of GIS

Benefits of using GIS in local government include the following:- Increase efficiency and save time/money.- Generate revenue and provide decision support.- Improve accuracy. - Manage resources.- Automate tasks. - Increase access to government. - Enhance public participation.- Promote greater collaboration among public

agencies.

Exercise

•What are some GIS applications in planning?• Discuss GIS methodologies related to

Urban Planning?