Web-based decision support or serious games for urban planning

PLUS, STAMP

Potential supervisors

Dr. Ir. Luc Boerboom and others depending on your interest

Spatial Engineering

This topic is adaptable to Spatial Engineering and it covers the following core knowledge areas:
  • Spatial Planning for Governance (SPG)
  • Spatial Information Science (SIS)
  • Technical Engineering (TE)

Suggested Electives

To be discussed depending on your skills

Additional Remarks

Programming skills required, e.g. python, JS frameworks. You can be working in a development team. Possibly you can combine with internship.

Description

UN-Habitat and VNG-International have respectively been using the Spatial Development Framework (SDF) methodology for 8 years or are interested in applying it. To that end new web-based spatial planning tools need to be developed for integrated governance. You could either collaborate in development of a web-based collaborative spatial evaluation tool or develop a serious game for integrated spatial governance for urban spatial planning and development.

Objectives and Methodology

Develop design framework for web-based collaborative spatial evaluation
Develop serious games for integrated spatial governance and planning

Further reading

Spaliviero, M., L. Boerboom, M. Gibert, G. Spaliviero & M. Bajaj (2019) The Spatial Development Framework to facilitate urban management in countries with weak planning systems. International Planning Studies, 24, 235-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2019.1658571

Mutuku, B., L. Boerboom & A. M. Madureira (2019) The role of Planning Support Systems in national policy transfer and policy translation in secondary cities. International Planning Studies, 24, 293-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2019.1657809

Boerboom, L. and Ö. O. Alan, 2012. Implementation, challenges and future directions of integrating services from the GIS and decision science domains. OSGeo Journal Volume 10

Kutsenko, N. 2017. Understanding consensus in group-based spatial decision making from different perspectives. Institute for Geoinformatics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (MSc Thesis)