Spatial Planning in the Big Data Revolution

Through interaction with other databases such as social media geographic information systems have the ability to build and obtain not only statistics defined on the flows of people things and information but also on perceptions impressions and opinions about specific places territories and landscapes. It is thus necessary to systematize integrate and coordinate the various sources of data (especially open data) to allow more appropriate and complete analysis descriptions and elaborations. Spatial Planning in the Big Data Revolution is a critical scholarly resource that aims to bring together different methodologies that combine the potential of large data analysis with GIS applications in dedicated tools specifically for territorial social economic environmental transport energy real estate and landscape evaluation. Additionally the book addresses a number of fundamental objectives including the application of big data analysis in supporting territorial analysis validating crowdsourcing and crowdmapping techniques and disseminating information and community involvement. Urban planners architects researchers academicians professionals and practitioners in such fields as computer science data science and business intelligence will benefit most from the research contained within this publication.