Semantic City Planning Systems (SCPS): A Literature Review
Aurel von Richthofen, Pieter Herthogs, Markus Kraft, Stephen Cairns
Abstract
This review focuses on recent research literature on the use of Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) in city planning. The review foregrounds representational, evaluative, projective, and synthetical meta-practices as constituent practices of city planning. We structure our review around these four meta-practices that we consider fundamental to those processes. We find that significant research exists in all four metapractices. Linking across domains by combining various methods of semantic knowledge generation, processing, and management is necessary to bridge gaps between these meta-practices and will enable future Semantic City Planning Systems.
Topics & Concepts
Semantic WebBridge (graph theory)Computer scienceUrban planningKnowledge managementData scienceEngineeringWorld Wide WebCivil engineeringInternal medicineMedicine3D Modeling in Geospatial ApplicationsGeographic Information Systems StudiesSemantic Web and Ontologies