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Ideation and Evaluation Methods Applied to Land-Use Planning

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  • S R Kshirsagar

    (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA)

  • E D Brill Jr

    (Department of Civil Engineering, and Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA)

Abstract

The selection of any land-use plan requires judgement by the decisionmaker(s). The role of the analyst is to improve the information available to the decisionmaker(s). If the planning problem is represented by a mathematical model, then methods of generating alternative solutions by manipulating the model, that is, ideation methods, are desirable tools for the analyst. In this paper, a vector-space approach is used to develop and unify various ideation methods within a formal mathematical framework that provides a geometric interpretation of the ideation process. A realistic land-use planning example is used to illustrate the concepts, and hierarchical clustering methods are used to examine the differences between alternative land-use plans.

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  • S R Kshirsagar & E D Brill Jr, 1984. "Ideation and Evaluation Methods Applied to Land-Use Planning," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 11(3), pages 313-324, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:11:y:1984:i:3:p:313-324
    DOI: 10.1068/b110313
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