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Applications to Urban Planning: An Overview

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Since the early 1980s expert systems have received much attention from the news media, from programmers, and from managers and decision makers.1 Planners’ interest in the potential of computers to aid planning practice has sparked their curiosity about expert systems. Although expert systems to aid planners are not yet operational, research is underway into applications such as site analysis and zoning ordinance implementation. This article introduces expert systems, surveys their applications for planning, and explores how useful they may become in urban and regional planning and related fields.

The original version of this chapter was published in The Journal of the American Planning Association, 1987, 53(1):98–103.

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  1. Leonard Ortolano
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA

    Tschangho John Kim (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    Lyna L. Wiggins (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 47907, USA

    Jeff R. Wright (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Ortolano, L., Perman, C.D. (1990). Applications to Urban Planning: An Overview. In: Kim, T.J., Wiggins, L.L., Wright, J.R. (eds) Expert Systems: Applications to Urban Planning. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3348-0_1

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