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THE ROLES OF INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS IN URBAN-SYSTEMS PLANNING
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Spatial DevelopmentEngineeringUrban InformaticsSmart CityUrban DevelopmentIntelligent SystemsUrban ProblemsUrban ScienceSocial SciencesInterim Programming StrategySystems EngineeringDigital PlanningGlobal Urban PlanningUrban StudiesPlanning AnalyticsUrban TheoryPublic PolicyPlanning Support SystemScientific MoralityUrban PlanningUrban ServicesUrban GeographyPhysical PlanningAutomationPlanning PracticeUrban SystemsUrban Space
Urban systems research has advanced, yet current planning processes still fail to reflect these new understandings of urban problems. The authors propose intelligence centers as modern city planning agencies to provide rational developmental information during an era of flux. These centers operate with an interim programming strategy, delivering improved inventories, forecasts, and designing targets, programs, and strategies for public action. Their engagement in politics and action is expected to introduce scientific morality into urban affairs, adding a new ingredient to the political scene.
Abstract Our new understandings of urban systems and our changing concepts of urban problems have not yet been matched by satisfactory urban planning processes. In response to the growing demand for good information that might support rational developmental decisions, “intelligence centers” are proposed, operating with an interim programming strategy. These centers would serve the multiplicity of groups in the urban areas, supplying improved inventories and forecasts; and they would serve governmental investors by designing targets, programs, and strategics for public action. They would inevitably be engaged in politics and action, but they would bring the scientific morality into urban affairs—a new ingredient in the urban political scene. They are proposed as the effective city planning agencies for this era of flux.