The development of a microcomputer-based comprehensive urban planning decision support system /
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1986.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy Link to ProQuest copy |
| Abstract: | In the early 1960s, computers first came into use in the field of urban and regional planning as planners built large scale models using main frame computers. The resulting outcome was the reduction of the planners' role as more functions were shifted away from human interaction and replaced electronically by computers. The impersonality of this highly automated approach failed to solve the problems of the urban community. The unaffordable costs of the main-frame computer systems in addition to the impersonal nature of large-scale analytical models were contributing causes leading to their discontinued acceptability. In the 1970s, planners began to use small, affordable, microcomputers to support some of the planners' tasks such as word processing, data filing systems, and some calculations. Today, more powerful yet economic microcomputers open opportunities for the development of more complex information systems. The emergence of decision support systems (DSS) concepts provides the opportunity of developing highly human-computer interactive information systems designed to support, not replace, decision makers (planners). DSS functions are performed through data base, model base, and dialog software components. Exploring the possibility of a microcomputer-based DSS application to the traditional comprehensive urban planning process is the purpose of this research. This proposed DSS is highly interactive, user-friendly, and places the planner in the key role while the computer system performs a supporting function. Facilitated by the DSS application, planners can now store data in a data base; perform the analysis of existing conditions, observe trends, forecast future conditions using analytical models; as well as make and store their professional decisions with the DSS through a dialog software. Data and decisions, the planners' information can be stored in quantitative, written, tabular, graphic, and map form. Current approaches to the urban planning process results in infrequent updating of the comprehensive plan, usually every 5-10 years. Since cities are dynamic entities, an urban plan should be updated as frequently as possible to reflect on-going change... |
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| Item Description: | Typescript (photocopy). Vita. "Major subject: Urban and Regional Science." |
| Physical Description: | xxviii, 232 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-212). |