Table of Contents

1 Editors’ Introduction.- 1: The Real World of Spatial Planning.- 2 Spatial Planning in the Twenty-First Century: Continuing or Ceasing?.- 3 Venice, Venice, and Venice: Three Realities of the European City.- 4 Sustainable Development and Urban Management in Developing Countries: The Case of Africa.- 5 Indicator Sets on City and Cantonal Levels in Switzerland: Tools for Sustainable Development.- 6 Implementing Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of Kunming, China.- 7 Transforming Cityspace.- 8 City of Regions: Improving Territorial Governance in the Zurich’s “Glattal-Stadt”.- 9 Increasing Resistance to Political Consulting.- 10 Evaluation and Decision Support Systems in Multiple Land Use Planning: The Dutch Case.- 2: The Virtual World of Spatial Planning.- 11 Dynamic Immersive Visualization: Negotiating Landscape Images.- 12 Behavioral Monitoring in Virtual Environments: A Basis for Agent Modeling in Urban Parks.- 13 Assessment of Urban Green Space Qualities Using 3D Visualization Tools.- 14 Movism: Prologue to a New Visual Theory in Landscape Architecture.- 15 Hiking in Real and Virtual Worlds.- 16 Complex Systems Applications for Transportation Planning.- 17 On the Variability of Human Activity Spaces.- 18 Networked Systems: Challenges in Risk Analysis and Availability Assessment.- 19 Material Flow Analysis as a Tool for Sustainable Management of the Built Environment.