Employing the World Wide Web (WWW) in Community Planning: Advancing Nasar's Work on Urban Likability and Dislikability

摘要

Jack Nasar, in The Evaluative Image of the City, 1998, has developed a method of empirically measuring what people like and dislike about the built form of their city, and then using these responses to create an evaluative map that can be used as a guide to improve city appearance. In this paper we re-conceptualize his model; where he used traditional surveys and manual plotting of respondent's data onto maps, we use Internet technology as the primary tool for communication with the public and a GIS system for automatically compiling and mapping responses. In extending Nasar 's technique in this way, we found that the Web is becoming an increasingly accessible medium for engaging the public in participatory planning. The paper concludes with an evaluation of the advantages and the disadvantages of using the Web as a research and planning tool.