| Title: | Space for urban planning |
| Material Type: | ISU Team Project report |
| Publisher: | Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University, 2019 |
| Format: | 1 electronic resource (xiv, 127 p.) / col. ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | GF125 |
| Subjects: | City planning--social aspects ; City planning-environnemental aspects ; Climatic changes ; Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on ; Global environmental change ; Sustainable urban development ; Urban geography--Remote sensing |
| Description: | Cities are economic development and innovation hubs: they support and benefit from the development and application of space technologies. Datasets from Landsat and MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) programs, Sentinel constellation satellites, and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), are already routinely utilized to monitor land, water, and urban infrastructure, and to complement emergency and rescue systems. Problems related to decreasing availability of primary resources can be addressed by imaginative solutions: for example, water scarcity can be managed by the realization of infrastructure modeled as natural water cycles, with its components consisting of natural and artificial reservoirs, monitored through ground-based and space-based sensors, controlled through intelligent systems run by programs initially developed for space. Implementation of space solutions in urban planning depends on levels of national development: urban planners in least developed countries (LDCs) have different priorities than those working in the developed world. Climate change and conflicts causing new waves of mass migration will globalize challenges, however, and urban planners all over the world will need to adapt to the resulting increased levels of socio-economic inequalities. In this report, therefore, the team focuses primarily on urban planning challenges depending on global scale factors, i.e. those that are more effectively incorporated into the future space agenda. The s vision is that the urban planning process of addressing global challenges will transform cities into fundamental nodes of Earth-space integration. |
| Contents note: | 1. Introduction 2. Urban planning 3. Resource management 4. Social, economic and environmental impacts 5. Urban planning technology analysis 6. Space for urban planning guidelines 7. Conclusion |
| ISU program : | Space Studies Program |
| Format : | Open Access |
| Permalink: | https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=10797 |
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