This article considers the extent to which the legal framework for making land use decisions in Singapore allows for public participation. It examines the issue from two angles: the creation and preservation of the built environment, and the transient use of public space. The first angle is...

Semantic web technologies have the potential to significantly improve urban regulatory data access, integration and usability, with potentially large implications for planning practice. Ontologies are a cornerstone of the semantic web. In this paper, we describe OntoZoning, an ontology...

The city is a dynamic system that evolves through bottom-up interactions among various dynamic components like population, housing, industry and economic activities, etc., which are again interrelated with each other through various spatial and temporal interactions and feedbacks. Most of the...