Timespace matters
Subtitle: exploring the gap between knowing about activity patterns of people and knowing how to design and plan urban areas and regions
Publisher: Eburon
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Delft
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789059725706
Subjects: City planning; Data processing; Mobile geographic information systems; Regional planning; Urban Sociology; Human geography
Other titles: Time space matters
Description: It is important to know about peoples' temporospatial activity patterns when making urban and regional designs and plans. Despite wide acknowledgment of this idea, knowledge about people's activity patterns does not get full attention in day-to-day practice of urban and regional design and planning. This book makes the case that, with activity patterns of people changing nowadays, this subject deserves full attention within the domain of urban and regional design and planning. Understanding how the societal organisation of time relates to the societal organisation of space is key to answering the questions put to designers and planners about the future development of cities and urban regions. This title contains a detailed analysis of two promising approaches of putting time in the picture of urban and regional design and planning: the use of tracking technologies such as GPS and the times-of-the-city approach developed in Italy, Germany, and France.
Notes: "Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Technische Universiteit Delft, op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof.ir. K.C.A.M. Luyben, voorzitter van het College voor Promoties, in het openbaar te verdedigen op 9 december 2011 om 12.30 uur door Jeroen van Schaick, bouwkundig ingenieur, geboren te Amsterdam."

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universiteit Delft, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-262) and index.