Geographical Information System (GIS) is an effective tool for planning and management of a metropolitan city. In developing countries like India, metropolitan governments, planning authorities and parastatals (viz. Water Supply Board, Transport Corporation etc.) have executed GIS projects independently. In recent years, many municipalities in the World have switched from stand-alone GIS system...

The successful utilization of 3D city models for business processes of urban planning highlights the benefits of 3D city models. This paper presents an overview of 3D GIS analysis capabilities for 3D city models. Based on realistic case studies the range of 3D analyses is highlighted and structured into categories.

As a sustainability property, energy efficiency is of an extreme importance, especially in environments that are heavy energy consumers, such as homes and buildings. Nowadays, homes and buildings are equipped with many devices that could be exploited in order to make them smart and energy-efficient. Our vision is to bring convergence of smart environments, energy efficiency and automated planni...

Recently, a framework to consider the overall architecture of enterprise information systems (EIS) such as the Enterprise Architecture (EA) has gained increasing popularity in Japan. In this paper, we propose a city planning approach for an EIS comprised of EIS architecture and an EIS Scenario. Our proposed approach leverages the methodology of city planning in civil engineering to provide a fr...

This paper explores the use of weighted space syntax models to contribute to the process of integrated urban planning for Jeddah as part of a major planning project in the Saudi Arabia. The Municipality of Jeddah commissioned the production of an integrated suite of planning documents. These plans coordinate Strategic, Sub-Regional, Structural and Local plans across a citywide region and aim to...

Computing, networking and virtual reality technologies are gradually approaching the level of maturity where large scale multi-user virtual environments will be possible. This will inevitably lead to the development of large scale spaces for the on-line community to meet, socialise and carry out business. We might consider these environments to be virtual towns or, eventually, virtual cities wh...

Modern urban infrastructure needs a comprehensive and integrated information science and technology. Global Position System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS), Digital Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (RS) and other spatial information technologies are it’s core techniques. Products of digital photogrammetry and remote sensing are its basic information resource. The key tasks of modern...

Abstract. In the era of ‘Smart Cities’, Planning Support Systems play an important role in providing a suite digital tools to support evidenced based planning and design (Pettit et al. 2019). Theatres vary from traditional City Command Control Centres which are used manage real-time city (Kitchin 2014) that they look at future cities regions through collaboration (Healey 2003) between various s...