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Common Ground for Integrating Planning Theory and GIS Topics

Department of city and regional planning Cornell University, Ithaca, New Yorkame7{at}cornell.edu

E. Bruce MacDougall

Department of landscape architecture and regionalplanning, University of Massachusetes, Amherstebm{at}1arp.umass.edu

The basic premise of this article is that planning theory and geographic information systems (GIS) course topics should be integrated in the planning curriculum. The increased use of GIS technology for informing planning and public policy decision making is discussed in the first section, followed by a summary of related technical and theoretical disparities. The concept of links is then introduced and used in the final section to demonstrate the contexts in which common themes can be identified for integrating planning norms (ethics, values, communicative rationality, planning process, and context) and GIS methods (data creation, analysis, and presentation).

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