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Microcomputers in Applied Settings: The Example of Urban Planning
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Two models of the diffusion of computer use and the use of more sophisticated social science methodology in applied settings are posited: Top-down diffusion involves the spread of sophisticated techniques from larger to smaller agencies, while grass-roots diffusion involvesThe gradual upgrading of methods used in a wider range of settings.Abstract:
Two models of the diffusion of computer use and the use of more sophisticated social science methodology in applied settings are posited: Top-down diffusion involves the spread of sophisticated techniques from larger to smaller agencies, while grass-roots diffusion involves the gradual upgrading of methods used in a wider range of settings. Possible examples of the role of microcomputers in fostering both types of diffusion in urban planning are described. The two models imply different kinds of computer training for professionals.read more
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Computers and Decision Making
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the many different, though often interrelated, lines of advance that have resulted in application of computer-based decision aids to a much broader range of problems than previously possible, and that make such aids available and increasingly acceptable to those with little or no computer expertise.
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Evolving Views of Computer-Aided Planning
TL;DR: The planning profession's changing views of the role of computer technology in planning practice, research, and education are reviewed, evaluating future prospects for computer-aided planning and suggesting useful directions for the future.
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Microcomputers in US Planning: Past Present and Future:
TL;DR: The historical development of microcomputer use in US planning is reviewed and the major ways in which microcomputers are currently being used in planning practice and education are evaluated.
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Microcomputers in urban and regional planning: Lessons from the past, directions for the future
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the lessons of previous attempts to use computer technology in planning to evaluate the increasingly widespread use of microcomputers in planning practice and education, and develop adversaria planning models that present and defend alternative policies for achieving desired future.
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Characteristics and diffusion of a microcomputer geoprocessing system: The Urban Data Management Software (UDMS) package
TL;DR: One of the major conclusions is that the spread of increasingly low-cost microcomputers provides a necessary, but insufficient, infrastructure for the development and diffusion of spatial modeling activities.
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