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A Review of Planning Support Systems for Urban Land Use Planning

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This paper reviews the research work on a relatively particular area – planning support systems (PSS) for urban land use planning (ULUP) from their emergence to the present. To aid readers’ clear understanding of PSS, its definition is discussed in the beginning. The review summarizes the development of PSS from two perspectives: system components and system application. In terms of system components, namely, the major theories and technologies serving for building the PSS such as related planning theories, GIS and decision support systems (DSS) technologies are reviewed respectively. With respect to system application, the paper discusses in detail their application to urban (land use) planning and other specialized planning separately. Based on this systematic overview, the characteristics in different times, especially current advantages and shortcomings of the PSS are indicated. Moreover, several new research trends in the PSS area are also highlighted for guiding researchers in future studies.

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The authors wish to express their sincere gratitude to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for the funding support to the research project on which this paper is based, and to Dr. Paul Fox for his kind help in manuscript proofreading. In addition, appreciation should also be given to the group members in our research team for their continuously constructive comments and suggestions on this research project.

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    Hao Wang Ph.D. Candidate, Qiping Shen (Chair Professor of Construction Management) & Bo-sin Tang

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Wang, H., Shen, Q., Tang, Bs. (2014). A Review of Planning Support Systems for Urban Land Use Planning. In: Wang, J., Ding, Z., Zou, L., Zuo, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35548-6_25

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