What role does expert information play in the planning process, and how can the role be enhanced by integrating information management and simulation modelling tools into a participatory decision-making exercise? We examine these questions through a survey of pertinent planning literature, and a...

1. Planning and complexity : an introduction / Gert de Roo -- 2. Being or becoming? That is the question! Confronting complexity with contemporary planning theory / Gert de Roo -- 3. Dealing with society's 'big messes' / Jens-Peter Grunau and Walter L. Schonwandt -- 4. Complexity in spatial...

This report provides an overview of spatial and land-use planning systems in OECD countries1 focusing on: (i) the governance systems across countries, (ii) the institutional and legal frameworks for spatial planning, and (iii) the various policy instruments used at different levels of...

Nowadays Portugal is under a large process of creation/revision of studies and plans related with land use and territorial planning, mainly due to the end of the lifetime period of the actual Municipal Master Plan, but also because of the creation of the new Metropolitan Authorities of...

Some parts of the Portuguese railway infrastructure have been neglected through time: Rural lines have been abandoned, investment in new infrastructure is sometimes delayed, and marketing strategies to keep or attract more users have not been pursued. Simultaneously, problems with urban...

Transportation analysis is typically thought of as one kind of spatial analysis. A major point of departure in understanding problems in transportation analysis is the recognition that spatial analysis has some limitations associated with the discretization of space. Among them, modifiable areal...