Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 15, 2007).
GMD: electronic resource.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-346) and index.
Systems analysis of the urban planning processes -- Modelling cities as general systems -- Urban problem solving -- Decision-support systems -- Urban plan-making -- Urban planning versus urban management of sustainable cities -- Role of information systems -- Urban planning as a co-operation process -- Urban planning in different countries -- Design methodologies for information systems -- Data, information, knowledge and metadata -- Modelling levels (external, conceptual, logical) -- Conceptual modelling: the entity-relationship approach -- Logical modelling: relational databases -- Spatial pictograms -- Entity relationship model with entity pictograms -- Object-oriented spatial databases -- Object-oriented database design methodology -- Presentation of OMEGA -- Extended relational formalism -- Multirepresentation -- Data acquisition in an urban environment -- Data from administrative routines -- Map digitising and scanning -- Aerial photographs and satellite images -- Range finders and lasers -- GPS -- Sensors -- Voice technology and spatial data acquisition -- Remarks on quality, scales, resolutions and applications -- Quality control and multisource updating of urban databases -- Quality control and assessment of spatial information -- Generalities about updating -- Alphanumeric updating -- Zonal updating and refinement -- Global updating -- Mixing two layers -- Coverage extension -- Global corrections -- Example of multi-source updating: mixing aerial photos and laser data -- Hypermaps and web sites for urban planning -- Hypertexts and hyperdocuments -- Hypermaps -- Navigation in hypermaps -- Designing hypermedia -- Some examples of hypermedia design -- Intranets and extranets -- From urban knowledge to spatial metainformation -- Generalities -- Knowledge -- Expert systems -- Knowledge bases -- Ontologies -- Debate and argumentation modelling -- Metadata and metainformation -- Spatial metainformation -- Visualisation for displaying and accessing urban information -- Visualisation as output -- Visual interfaces for accessing, and navigating in, urban data -- Conclusions: from static to dynamic, from passive to active -- Groupware in urban planning -- What is groupware? -- Groupware and urban planning -- Conclusions: what groupware can afford to urban planning -- Computer systems for public participation -- Objectives for public participation and different ways of involving citizens -- First specifications of an information system for public participation -- Virtual reality for public participation -- Examples of information systems for public participation -- Computer architectures for urban planning -- Generalities about information system architecture -- Client-server architecture -- Federating several database systems -- Interoperability in geoprocessing -- Architecture for groupware -- Datawarehousing -- Real-time information systems for urban environment and risks monitoring -- Real-time systems for environmental monitoring -- Towards telegeomonitoring -- Computer architectures -- Urban major risk management -- Example of a telegeomonitoring system for hazmat transportation planning -- Example of humanitarian assistance in urban environments.