Gerhard Steinebach

Visualizing Sustainable Planning

The authors present the state of the art in the rapidly growing field of visualization as related to problems in urban and regional planning. The significance and timeliness of this volume consist in its reflection of several developments in literature and the challenges cities are facing. First, the unsustainability of many of our current paradigms of development has become evidently clear. We are entering an era in which communities across the globe are strengthening their connections to the global flows of capital, goods, ideas, technologies and values while facing at the same time serious dislocations in their traditional socioeconomic structures. While the impending scenarios of climate change impacts remind us about the integrated ecological system that we are part of, the current discussions about global recession in the media alert us and make us aware of the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated and hyper-complex socioeconomic-ecological system is difficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to prepare as well as build resilience in the impacted communities, appropriate visualization tools are indispensable for effective planning. Second, planners have largely been slow to incorporate the advances in visualization research emerging from other domains of inquiry.

Gesunde Kommune – Sport und Bewegung als Faktoren der Stadt- und Raumentwicklung

Der sich vollziehende Wandel von Sport und Bewegung, insbesondere hinsichtlich des Sportverhaltens der Bevolkerung, schlagt sich direkt in der Inanspruchnahme von Sportraumen und Sportstatten wieder. Die raumliche Planung wird durch diesen Wandel vor neue Herausforderungen gestellt: Fur die deutlich veranderten Anspruche an den Sportraum und eine erschwerte Finanzierungssituation sind vor dem Hintergrund der wachsenden Bedeutung des Sports als Instrument der kommunalen Entwicklung in den Bereichen Gesundheit, Soziales, okonomie und Umwelt angepasste planerische Losungen zu finden.

Sicherheit im demographischen Wandel

Aufgrund der Alterung und Schrumpfung der Bevolkerung ist mit Folgen auf die Kriminalitats- und Verkehrsunfallentwicklung und der daraus resultierenden Gewahrleistung von Sicherheit (Schutz vor Kriminalitat und Verkehrsunfallgefahren) zu rechnen. Eine uberprufung der bestehenden Standards der Sicherheitsvorsorge als Teil der infrastrukturellen Grundversorgung erscheint demnach unumganglich.

Augmented Reality and Immersive Scenarios in Urban Planning

Urban planning is affected by fundamental changes in society and government. As a discipline and practice it must to cope with new technical and juridical challenges on content, methodical, and procedural levels. Classical decision-making and assessment method must be modified, otherwise they will not be able to handle the future challenges.

Planning Sustainable Living

The planning of future spatial development, in line with the social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability is one of the core tasks of spatial planning.

DaMI - Data Management for Multimedial Information Systems

This paper describes a Data Management System for Multimedial Information Visualization called DaMI. It is possible to create 2D or 3D model based on data out of standard databases and additional metainformation. DaMI is a generic system guaranteeing an optimal reusability and compatibility.