Planning Support Systems: Technologies that are Driving Planning Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC 1 E 6BT, United Kingdom I had always thought the term 'Planning Support Systems', abbreviated to PSS, had been coined by the father of land use modelling, Britton Harris, in his article 'Beyond Geographic Information Systems: computers and the planning professional' published in the Journal of the American Planning Association in 1989 (Harris 1989).
The 1990s have seen some remarkable changes in geographical information (GI) provision and computer technology that have impacted on many of the activities that constitute planning in all its different forms.
An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact of material elements, technical instruments, and scientific practices on international security, statehood, and global governance.
This book explores into the dynamics of income distribution, challenging the established approaches of 19th-century political economist Karl Marx and 21st-century economist Thomas Piketty.
This book explores into the dynamics of income distribution, challenging the established approaches of 19th-century political economist Karl Marx and 21st-century economist Thomas Piketty.
This book investigates eras of major geopolitical and socioeconomic power, development, relative demise and potential renewal, for four major political economies.
This book investigates eras of major geopolitical and socioeconomic power, development, relative demise and potential renewal, for four major political economies.
This moving book examines the HIV epidemic in the UK through the lives of a range of individuals who worked tirelessly, but often quietly, to make a difference to those living and dying with HIV.
Analyzing long-cycle patterns during the twentieth century, this book presents novel findings on how core features of financialization are interconnected across advanced economies.
This moving book examines the HIV epidemic in the UK through the lives of a range of individuals who worked tirelessly, but often quietly, to make a difference to those living and dying with HIV.
This book analyzes the context, process and content of the reform of married women's property rights in seven Spanish-speaking South American countries - Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela - between 1900 and the early 1950s.
Analyzing long-cycle patterns during the twentieth century, this book presents novel findings on how core features of financialization are interconnected across advanced economies.
This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a pluralistic heterodox perspective.
This book analyzes the context, process and content of the reform of married women's property rights in seven Spanish-speaking South American countries - Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela - between 1900 and the early 1950s.
This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a pluralistic heterodox perspective.
"e;Moral Farming of Immoral Tobacco: The Shia Community, the Tobacco Market, and the Future of Lebanon"e; explores the ethical and operational complexities of managing a controversial industry in a fragile, divided state neighboring war-torn Syria.
"e;Moral Farming of Immoral Tobacco: The Shia Community, the Tobacco Market, and the Future of Lebanon"e; explores the ethical and operational complexities of managing a controversial industry in a fragile, divided state neighboring war-torn Syria.
Businesses do not operate in a vacuum but rather in a dynamic environment that has a direct influence on how they perform and whether they will achieve their objectives.
