Role of urban planning and management at local level is becoming more and more crucial due to the dramatic increase in urban population and allied urban problems. However, absence of appropriate information and its limited sharing is one of the important factor affecting planners and decision makers’ ability to deal with urban problems. Effective quality of life can not be achieved without appropriate spatial information. Realising importance of spatial information, developed countries have started to develop Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for efficient information sharing. Developing countries like Pakistan & Iran should learn from their experience and develop SDI according to their own institutional, political and culture background. It is expected that improved information sharing and application through Local SDI can help experts in achieving better urban life through improved urban planning & management. This paper aims to explore the role of SDI in better urban planning and management through effective & efficient information integration and sharing.

Facilitating urban planning and management at local level through the development of SDI (case study of Lahore - Pakistan)

Our living environment is under real threat of various global issues like global warming, rising sea-level, changing weather patterns, floods and hurricanes etc as well as local issues likes housing affordability, traffic congestion, pollution, health and environmental degradation etc. All these issues are inter-related and cities are the major contributor. These issues can’t be addressed in isolation and require an integrated approach for problem solution. Spatial Information is critical for better response to these problems. But absence of required information is affecting such efforts. Recent advancement in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) has enabled development of spatial data platforms like Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) for affective and efficient data integration, information sharing and its application for informed decision making. Better urban planning and management at local level can overcame many of the problems faced and this paper explores how SDI based on Service Oriented Approach can facilitate this process using Unified Modeling Language (UML) technique.

Realization of sustainable urban environment through spatial data infrastructures

Building healthy cities in the global south: A case study of the City of Lahore, Pakistan

Viewpoint: A plan for an international market information network (IMIN)

This is a preprint of a paper from AsiaGIS 2008 Conference, 26-27 September, 2008. http://www.asiagis.org/

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J. S. Edralin

Papers

Managing information systems for urban and regional planning in Asian metropolitan regions