In the context of rapid urban planning strategies, particularly in the adaptation to natural or man-made disasters (e.g. cities recovering from climate-related hazards or enduring war conflict) resilience frameworks emerge as crucial solutions. Despite the existence of numerous models, its operational integration into spatial-based instruments for strategic urban planning has not been consolidated. Existing instruments […]
With the premise that innovation and diffusion of technology is both an individual and collective act, this paper intends to explore the invention and diffusion of TOSCA Toolkit for Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis, an open-source Geographic Information Systems tool that is an innovation in the field of urban planning. An exploration of […]
This paper analyses the different adaptations of TOSCA, an open-source geographical information system (GIS) toolkit to different urban contexts across the world and the learnings through these adaptations; involving the synthesis of extracted knowledge, its translation and final adaptation into a location-customised tool for decision-support in the context of planning. Knowledge management and extraction methodologies […]