Monday 5 November 2018

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Volume 8, Issue 1, January - March 2019





International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
Volume 8, Issue 1, January - March 2019

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 2160-9918; EISSN: 2160-9926;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijepr

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

EDITORIAL PREFACE

Citizen and Crowd Participation in Urban e-Planning
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

ARTICLE 1

Mining Social Media to Measure Neighborhood Quality in the City of Atlanta
Subhrajit Guhathakurta (Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Ge Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Guangxu Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Caroline Burnette (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Isabel Sepkowitz (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)

ARTICLE 2

Citizen Participation and the Rise of Digital Media Platforms in Smart Governance and Smart Cities
Olga Gil (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain), María E. Cortés-Cediel (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain), Iván Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

ARTICLE 3

Immersive Computing and Crowd Simulation Techniques in Modelling Urban Commons: The Case of Nicosia-Cyprus
Georgios Artopoulos (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus), Panayiotis Charalambous (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus), Colter Eugene Wehmeier (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA)

ARTICLE 4

Online or Offline Services for Urban Neighbourhoods?: Conceptualisation of Research Problems
Lukasz Damurski (Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland), Jacek Pluta (Institute of Sociology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland), Jerzy Ładysz (Faculty of Economics, Management and Tourism, Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland), Magdalena Mayer-Wydra (Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)

CONFERENCE REPORT

3rd International Conference on Urban e-Planning - 2018
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

BOOK REVIEW

Encounters in Planning Thought: 16 Autobiographical Essays From Key Thinkers in Spatial Planning
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)



Wednesday 30 May 2018

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Volume 7, Issue 4, October - December 2018


 
International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)Volume 7, Issue 4, October - December 2018
Indexed by: Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), INSPEC, SCOPUS, Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 2160-9918; EISSN: 2160-9926;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijepr

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
 
EDITORIAL PREFACE
Collaborative e-Planning and the Geography of e-Government
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)

ARTICLE 1
A Spatio-Temporal Decision Support System for Designing With Street Trees
Marcus R. White (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia), Nano Langenheim (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)

ARTICLE 2
Creating Collaborative Environments for the Development of Slum Upgrading and Illegal Settlement Regularization Plans in Brazil: The Maria Tereza Neighborhood Case in Belo Horizonte
Rogério Palhares Zschaber de Araújo (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Ana Clara Mourão Moura (UFMG, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Thaisa Daniele Apóstolo Nogueira (PUC-Minas, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

ARTICLE 3
Public Participation in Local Regeneration Programmes in Poland: Case Study of Olkusz
Magdalena Miśkowiec (Institute of Urban Development, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland), Katarzyna Maria Gorczyca (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

ARTICLE 4
Geographies of e-Government in Europe: European e-Government
Barney Warf (University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA)

BOOK REVIEW
Data and the City
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)

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Tuesday 10 April 2018

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Volume 7, Issue 3, July - September 2018


 


International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
Volume 7, Issue 3, July - September 2018

www.igi-global.com/ijepr
Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Indexed by: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS and 12 other Indices

Table of Contents ->

 
EDITORIAL PREFACE

Smart Cities, Digital Inclusion and Digital Participatory Platforms
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Smart City Planning: Complexity
Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Advertising-cities face to Smart-cities: The trends of integration policies for information new technologies in Madrid
Leticia Jácomo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

A New Governance Model For Delivering Digital Policy Agendas? A Case Study Of Digital Inclusion Amongst Elderly People In The UK
Paul Anthony Hepburn (Heseltine Institute for Public Policy and Practice, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

The 2nd International Conference on Urban e-Planning
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

Digital Participatory Platforms for Co-Production in Urban Development. A Systematic Review
Enzo Falco (TU Delft - Department OTB Research for the Built Environment, The Netherlands)
Reinout Kleinhans (TU Delft - Department OTB Research for the Built Environment, The Netherlands)

Monday 19 March 2018

Third IJEPR Annual Conference

 
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««IGI Global is proud to support the Third IJEPR Annual Conference on ‘Urban e-Planning, which will be held at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, on April 3-4, 2018. The conference is convened by Dr. Carlos Nunes Silva, IGI Global contributor and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), a journal that has been accepted for inclusion into SCOPUS in 2017, and more recently into Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

“The IJEPR Annual Conference aims to explore and to discuss recent developments, emerging issues and future challenges in the field of urban e-planning worldwide”, explains Dr. Nunes Silva. This conference will provide a forum for the critical discussion of new perspectives, approaches, methods, and tools in the field of Urban e-Planning.

The program is organized around the following themes:

• Theme 1: Smart Cities: Governance and Planning
• Theme 2: Citizens e-Participation & Collaborative Planning
• Theme 3: The Real and Virtual in Urban e-Planning
• Theme 4: Theory, Ethics and Methods in Urban e-Planning

Additionally, this third edition of the IJEPR Annual Conference will be an occasion and opportunity for research networking in the broad field of Urban e-Planning. It is expected that a selection of conference papers will be published in the IJEPR in 2019.

To stay current with the latest information about the Third Annual IJEPR Conference, monitor the conference’s website. Furthermore, be sure to recommend Dr. Nunes Silva’s journal, International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) to your librarian. This journal contains peer-reviewed, pioneering research on emerging theoretical and empirical aspects of interdisciplinary areas of urban e-planning. Covering topics including e-planning theory, history, methods, ethics, urban e-planning pedagogy, and software technology, this journal provides scholars, researchers, students, and urban/regional planning practitioners with forward-thinking knowledge and a forum to internally exchange ideas on urban e-planning and research.

IJEPR is also part of the award-winning InfoSci Journals Database, which IGI Global is proud to offer for as low as $4,950 to new customers. This comprehensive database provides institutions access to IGI Global's full collection of 175+ scholarly journals, which contain 22,000+ quality articles with over one million citation references. Additionally, all IGI Global journals are offered under the hybrid open access model. For institutions that invest in InfoSci-Journals, IGI Global will waive the open access article processing fees for researchers from that institution after their paper is properly vetted and officially accepted into an IGI Global journal.

For more information on submitting an article to IJEPR, please see the Call for Papers.

IGI Global would like to thank Dr. Carlos Nunes Silva for sharing this information about the Third IJEPR Annual Conference on 'Urban e-Planning', and we look forward to the continued growth of this conference and his jornal.»»


(Source:  IGI Global Homepage ->)

Tuesday 20 February 2018

IJEPR Added to Web of Science 'Emerging Sources Citation Index' (ESCI)


Twelve IGI Global Journals Added to Emerging Sources Citation Index ->

 
«The acceptance of the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) for coverage in the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) means that an external and highly-respected entity considered that the IJEPR meets consistently its well-established criteria regarding basic publishing standards, editorial content, and international focus,” states Dr. Carlos Nunes Silva, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) and professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal. “In the short term, this external recognition of the IJEPR as a journal that meets the highest publishing standards makes it more attractive for authors.»

Saturday 13 January 2018

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Volume 7, Issue 2, April - June 2018


International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
Volume 7, Issue 2, April - June 2018

www.igi-global.com/ijepr
Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Indexed by: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS and 12 other Indices

Table of Contents: http://www.igi-global.com/journals/abstract-announcement/185328 
 
EDITORIAL PREFACE

Special Issue: Models and Strategies Toward Planning and Developing Smart Cities
Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, New York City, New York, United States), Sehl Mellouli (Universite Laval, Quebec City, Canada), Yigal Arens (ISI - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States)
 
Governance in Smart Cities: A Comparison of Practitioners' Perceptions and Prior Research
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar (Departmento de Economia Financiera y Contabilidad, University of Granada, Granada, Spain) 

From Citizens to Decision-Makers: A Natural Language Processing Approach in Citizens' Participation
Eya Boukchina (University of Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia), Sehl Mellouli (Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada), Emna Menif (University of Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia) 

Decision Models and Group Decision Support Systems for Emergency Management and City Resilience
Yumei Chen (School of Public Administration & Emergency Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China), Xiaoyi Zhao (University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States), Eliot Rich (University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States), Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes (University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States) 

Legal Logistics: A Framework to Unify Data Centric Services for Smart and Open Justice
Niels Netten (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands), Susan W. van den Braak (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands), Mortaza S. Bargh (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands), Sunil Choenni (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands), Frans L. Leeuw (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands) 

Smart Cities: From Silos to Cross-Border Approach
Ralf-Martin Soe (Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia) 

Developing Smart Regions: Proposal and Application of a Model for Island Territories
Felix Herrera Priano (University of La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain), Rafael Lopez Armas (Official College of Telecommunication Engineers, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain), Cristina Fajardo Guerra (University of La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain)

Tuesday 2 January 2018

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)



International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
ISSN: 2160-9918; EISSN: 2160-9926
Established 2012; Published Quarterly

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Description

The International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) is a peer-reviewed international quarterly journal that publishes original theoretical and innovative empirical research on the many aspects of the emerging interdisciplinary area of urban e-planning. The journal is mainly focused on urban e-planning theory, history, methods, ethics, best practices, urban e-planning pedagogy, future developments, and on the software technology associated with urban e-planning.
 

Mission and Scope 

The mission of the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)is to provide scholars, researchers, students and urban and regional planning practitioners with analytical and theoretically informed empirical research on e-planning, as well as evidence on best-practices of e-planning, in both urban and regional planning fields. The journal aims to establish itself as a reference for information on e-planning issues. The International Journal of E-Planning Research is committed to provide a forum for an international exchange of ideas on urban e-planning research and practice.
 

Topics Covered 

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

Functional Dimensions of Urban E-Planning

• E-planning and culture, leisure and tourism

• E-planning and disability

• E-planning and digital divide

• E-planning and disasters management

• E-planning and education

• E-planning and environment

• E-planning and ethnicity

• E-planning and gender

• E-planning and health

• E-planning and housing

• E-planning and low carbon urban development

• E-planning and social issues

• E-planning and universal design

• E-planning and urban e-marketing

• E-planning and urban economic development

• E-planning and urban governance

• E-planning and urban infrastructures

• E-planning in developing countries

• Smart cities and smart urban e-planning

• Urban and metropolitan government reform through e-planning

 
Future E-Planning

• Future directions for urban e-planning

• Innovations and best practices in Urban e-Planning

 
Organization, Technology, Methods

• Augmented reality in urban e-planning

• Citizen science in urban e-planning

• Citizen e-participation in urban planning

• Complexity and wicked problems in urban e-planning

• Crowdsourcing in urban e-planning

• Digital augmented reality and citizen engagement in urban e-planning

• E-planning and visualization

• E-planning benchmarking

• E-planning data collection

• E-planning data management (data analysis, data storage)

• E-planning evaluation

• E-planning monitoring

• E-planning online communication and dissemination

• Games as visualization and participatory tools in urban e-planning

• Games and idea generation in participatory urban e-planning

• Geodesign and the planning of natural and virtual environments

• Internet of Things in urban e-planning

• Landscape virtual modeling

• Living labs in urban e-planning

• Mobile applications and sensors for urban e-planning

• Online decision support models in urban e-planning

• Online indicator tools and urban e-planning

• Online data portals and urban e-planning

• Organizational and human factors in urban e-planning

• Participatory and emotional mapping

• Participatory Geoweb and urban e-planning

• Participatory e-activism in urban e-planning

• Planning 3.0

• Qualitative online research methods for urban e-planning

• Quantitative online research methods for urban e-planning

• Scenarios and prospective methods in urban e-planning

• Social media and citizen engagement in urban e-planning

• Software technology for urban e-planning

• Spatial big data and data mining in urban e-planning

• Spatial open data and participatory urban e-planning

• Strategic urban e-planning methods

• Surveillance and cecurity in the e-city

• Technology pitfalls in urban e-planning projects

• 3D cadastral systems in urban e-planning

• Virtual 3D urban models

• Virtual reality environments in urban e-planning

• Volunteered geographic information in urban e-planning

• Volunteered geographic information for disaster management

• Web-based public participation in urban e-planning

 
Theory, History and Ethics of E-Planning

• Data protection and citizens’ privacy in urban e-planning

• E-planning and human rights

• Ethics in urban e-planning

• History of urban e-planning (adoption and impact of e-planning)

• Theories of urban e-planning (modern and post-modern planning theories)

• Trust in urban e-planning


Submission

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx  PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically.

 
All submissions and inquiries regarding IJEPR should be directed to the attention of:

Carlos Nunes Silva
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
E-mail: cs @ campus. ul. pt