Zorica Nedovic-Budic

• PhD, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill
• Professor Emerita at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Shrinking cities scholars claim that planning actors in the cities where shrinking is accepted are more likely to change the focus of planning strategy from pursuing growth to actively planning for de-growth. Considering this argument, this article investigates to what extent planning actors in shrinking cities seek solutions outside the dominant g...

Accessible geospatial data are crucial for informed decision making and policy development in urban planning, environmental governance, and hazard mitigation. Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have been implemented to facilitate such data access. However, with the rapid advancements in geospatial software and modelling tools, it is important to r...

Urban megaprojects exhibit various distortions: special regulations, budget overrun, additional funding sources, long-term timeframes, and ad-hoc actor networks. Coping with such challenges seems to be demanding even for the welfare states and advanced democracies built upon the governmental control of megaproject development. Therefore, it is inte...

The 'iron-law of megaproject management' relies upon the logic of exception and includes extra budget, special regulations, non-standard organisational structure, questioning of public accountability, and the central role of developers at the expense of the city leaders, planners and citizens. With previous in mind, the crucial question is how to i...

How public interest is constituted in planning practice varies according to the local context. Using state-socialist and post-socialist cases in Belgrade, Serbia, we explore the shift in the realization of public interest as a basis for planning standards regarding provision of public land use and services. The research looks at trends for planning...

The evaluation of planning policies and practices has mostly been lagging behind planning activity. The evaluation of participation seems even more perplexed if taken that it has to inevitably deal with the question of values, processes and outcomes, but also the fact that such practices do not exist in a vacuum and are exposed to various internal...

Ovaj rad preispituje pristup urbanom planiranju u periodu socijalizma kroz perspektivu normativne dimenzije koncepta javnog interesa na studiji slučaja Beograda. Javni interes se u teoriji planiranja posmatra dvojako. Zajednički javni interes predstavlja jednu ili skup vrednosti koje dele svi članovi određene zajednice, dok pluralistički javni inte...

From the perspective of its inherent promises, difficulties, elusiveness, and relative discontinuity, the pursuit of integration in planning could be compared to the Quest for the Holy Grail. The aim of this paper is to identify the main commitments and impediments to pursued integration in the former Yugoslavia’s planning from the late 1950s until...

This paper compares the results of building damage detection based on Crowd Sourced (CS) data, image processing of remotely sensed (RS) data and predictive modelling with institutional spatial data (Spatial Data Infrastructure - SDI). In particular, it focuses on the contribution of Crowd Sourcing to detecting post-earthquake building damages, whil...

The objective of the COMPASS project was to provide an authoritative comparative report on changes in territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe from 2000 to 2016. This Final Report presents the main findings, conclusions and policy recommendations. The first comprehensive comparative analysis of spatial planning in Europe, the E...

The ToR require investigation of the 32 countries participating in the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme (i.e. the 28 EU Member States + Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland). Furthermore, the Tender states that ‘the service provider should assess the data situation for the EU candidate countries (i.e. Albania, The former Yugoslav Republic...

Starting in the 1990s, an increasing number of studies and reports have focused on examining the nature and characteristics of spatial planning in Europe. The geographical coverage of these comparative analyses broadened over time, paralleling the progression of EU integration. However, the Western Balkan countries were only vaguely mentioned withi...

The goal of this research is to examine the processes of suburbanization and sprawl in two post-socialist capital cities in Southeast Europe – Belgrade, Serbia and Sofia, Bulgaria. Our analysis begins with a survey of relevant historical developments in the two cities, which illustrates the impact of major political, economic and social drivers on...

The policy integration of spatial planning and flood risk management is a promising approach to mitigate flooding. Scholars indicate that the absence of appropriate information base and technological capacity is among the factors impeding this integration. This study found that what needs to be improved is the access to geographic information and g...

Transitioning is a unidirectional process of mainstreaming sustainability within normative societal behaviour, which communities hope will build resilience, reduce our dependence on distant resources and lead to the transformation towards more sustainable living as an end product. Throughout Europe there are numerous examples and pilot or demonstra...

Flooding is expected to become more common and more severe as climate change progresses. Past and ongoing research suggests that a better integration between spatial planning as a nonstructural measure and flood risk management is one way to deal with the problems related to flooding. In order to better understand the potential of such integration,...

IT multinational enterprises (MNEs) have garnered a significant amount of attention in relation to the growth of indigenous IT sectors . Compared to some sectors, the IT industry - which trades in immaterial goods - may be less dependent on spatial constraints since it does not rely on large scale labor force or massive movement of raw materials. T...

Flooding is a widely occurring natural hazard that noticeably damages property, people, and the environment. In the context of climate change, the integration of spatial planning with flood-risk management has gained prominence as an approach to mitigating the risks of flooding. The absence of easy access to integrated and high-quality information,...

The impact of surges and corrections in residential property prices has been a feature of many international economies in the past two decades and was pronounced as the global financial crisis evolved from 2007 to 2015. Many European states such as Spain and Ireland were severely affected by market corrections, having experienced major property-dev...

With a tradition of compact cities, generally strict planning controls, and variable growth rates, many cities in Europe have policies which aim to restrict low density growth patterns. However, there is clear evidence that low density growth is happening, and that it is essential to understand the nature, location, and extent of the urban forms em...

The scope of this Deliverable is to: To provide substantive analysis, visualisation and communication tools tailored to each application area, in addition to the general database support with contextual information (TURAS City Viewer / webGIS). Integrate the partners’ expertise and existing technologies into the tools. Work in close collaboration...

This paper presents the development of a spatial model for the allocation of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) operation by computing the priority index of damaged areas (PI-USAR model). The relevant prioritization criteria were identified through a literature review and interviews with 30 disaster managers. The relative importance of these criter...

This article compares the results of building damage detection based on Crowd Sourced (CS) data, image processing of remotely sensed (RS) data and predictive modelling with institutional spatial data (Spatial Data Infrastructure-SDI). In particular, it focuses on the contribution of Crowd Sourcing to detecting post-earthquake building damages, whil...

The scope of this deliverable is to: Identify the necessary datasets by type, scale, availability, accuracy, format and accessibility. Identify the particular data needs, approaches and procedures to support the specific functional and analytical requirements for each of work packages 2 to 6. Establish a common lexicon and mutual understanding of...

This paper explores the value of the application of Crowd Sourced (CS) data in identification of areas damaged in the aftermath of an earthquake. A survey was conducted to collect CS data based on two stage cluster sampling method from people who experienced the earthquake in Bam city, Iran in 2003. The CS data submission time was considered for da...

The concept of a ubiquitous city, or uCity, is gaining attention worldwide. In a uCity, anyone is enabled by information and communication technologies (ICT) to do anything, anywhere, at any time. The uCity concept has spread more quickly than its implementation, which relies on a complex set of interrelated technologies, practices, and actors, inc...

Unlike in most other European post-socialist countries, in Serbia, land policy and property reforms have only been partially implemented. A new approach is neither fully defined nor institutionalized a decade after the end of ethnic conflict and the Milosevic era. The context and characteristics of Serbia's urban-land privatization reforms and the...

Strategic Environmental Assessment can be viewed as a process to integrate the concept of sustainable development into planning. In this context, SEA can be regarded as a method that regulates the planning process to a state of sustainable development. However, to reach that goal it is necessary to achieve full integration of planning and the SEA p...

Purpose: To introduce Agent-Based Model (ABM) to physical activity (PA) research and, using data from a study of neighborhood walkability and walking behavior, to illustrate parameters for an ABM of walking behavior. Method: The concept, brief history, mechanism, major components, key steps, advantages, and limitations of ABM were first introduc...

This paper explores the changes in the Serbian spatial planning legislation and system as they relate to the political, socio-economic and institutional context and reflect societal dynamics and broad democratization processes. Drawing on the literature on societal and institutional embedding of planning, evolution of planning systems and the theor...

For several reasons, few projects funded by European Commission end with a printed book summarising the outcomes of the project and its achievements. In this case, while the project activities were still running, Plan4all considered this oportunity and has found it useful to prepare such a book, mainly on the basis of the idea that the achieved res...

For several reasons, few projects funded by European Commission end with a printed book summarising the outcomes of the project and its achievements. In this case, while the project activities were still running, Plan4all considered this oportunity and has found it useful to prepare such a book, mainly on the basis of the idea that the achieved res...

The idea of sharing geographic data both within and between organizations remains largely resisted despite the obvious benefits that can be derived from data-sharing activities and Federal initiatives that promote them. The research presented in this paper examines the various properties of data-sharing activities, as well as related motivations ci...

In the wake of the so-called information technology revolution, many stakeholders from the public and private sectors (including citizens) have indeed grown accustomed to the promise and usability of spatial data infrastructures (SDI) for data access, use, and sharing. Analyzing the obstacles as well as the processes and mechanisms of integration a...

Spatial data infrastructure as a notion and a set of practices has made inroads in African countries since the first Committee on Development Information (CODI) conference in 1999 (CODI-I 1999). Still, SDI is fraught with problems and arguably slower to implement in Africa than in more economically developed regions (Georgiadou and Homburg 2008; Ho...

This paper explores the dynamic relationship between urban form and information and communication technologies (ICT) in an intrametropolitan context of the Washington, DC region. We ask if knowledge-based developments coupled with ICT lead to new settlement forms and urban patterns. The findings of the regression analyses provide evidence of the in...

A conceptual framework for volunteered geographic information (VGI) is proposed, drawing from research in several related fields including volunteering, leisure study, and social production of knowledge. Although these research areas have not been explored extensively within the field of geographic information science, they offer conceptual tools f...

This paper presents an assessment of the regional capacity in implementing geographic information systems (GIS) and databases. We draw on a Web survey to determine the availability and assembly of spatial data at the metropolitan level in the United States. Information was sought from 388 planning organizations and regional agencies located in 349...

Spatial data infrastructures, which are Internet-based mechanisms for the coordinated production, discovery, and use of geospatial information in the digital environment, have diffused worldwide in the last two decades. Currently, there are about one hundred spatial data infrastructures at the national level and many other at supra- and sub-nationa...

Purpose: To introduce Agent-Based Model (ABM) to physical activity (PA) research and, using data from a study of neighborhood walkability and walking behavior, to illustrate parameters for an ABM of walking behavior. Method: The concept, brief history, mechanism, major components, key steps, advantages, and limitations of ABM were first introduced....

Definitions of spatial data infrastructure (SDI), and claims about its value, emphasise applications that solve real societal issues as the ultimate benefit. While it may be premature to expect that those benefits show up in many SDIs (if in any, by now), preparing for systematic evaluation is timely. Initiatives like the Spatial Data Interest Comm...

Information and communication technologies, and the Internet as one of their most prominent uses, are adopted on a massive scale around the globe. Although we do not know much about their pattern and impact, these technologies exert substantial influence on our daily lives and environments. The main objective of this chapter is to empirically explo...

Information and communication technologies, and the Internet as one of their most prominent uses, are adopted on a massive scale around the globe. Although we do not know much about their pattern and impact, these technologies exert substantial influence on our daily lives and environments. The main objective of this chapter is to empirically explo...

This paper focuses on the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICT) and urban form, and on urban planning response to spatial and economic consequences of ICT. It starts with literature-based review of how urban environments in the United States change with technological advances and explanations of the relationship betw...

Research on spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) is not well grounded in theory, and SDI practice often does not adequately take into account previous experiences. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about knowledge areas available to academics and professionals involved in studying or developing SDIs. Along with technical tools, both gr...

We present a prototype spreadsheet-based and geographic information system-based model, EmiquonViz, developed to examine the economic, fiscal, and social impacts of development. The model is designed to facilitate examination of hypothetical scenarios related to introducing recreational use and siting a lodging facility within a naturalized floodpl...

Like many cities in developing countries, Sao Paulo, Brazil, is characterized by major intra-urban inequalities with respect to human development. The center-periphery spatial regimes are the most obvious spatial manifestation of this phenomenon. In this paper we apply confirmatory spatial data analysis to examine these inequalities and their relat...

The book 'The urban mosaic of post-socialist Europe,' focuses on the processes of economic, societal, institutional and spatial change, with emphasis on the implications for urban planning and policy in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The most basic contextual elements affecting how post-socialist cities develop are the political r...

The book 'The post-socialist urban world,' focuses on trends and processes of change that were witnessed in post-socialist cities worldwide, having undergone a dramatic economic, social and cultural change. National economies in the post-socialist world have become increasingly integrated within a global system of production, distribution and excha...

The problems of planning system and practice in Serbia have been concomitant with the overall institutional changes. Urban planning evolves in response to and by adjusting to the specific contexts and circumstances, namely political, socio-economic, and governing. The more extreme variations in planning practice and the response to the societal cir...

The book explores urban dynamics in post-socialist Europe 15 years after the fall of communism. The ‘urban mosaic’ metaphor expresses the complexity, diversity and uniqueness of the processes and spatial outcomes in post-socialist cities. The book examines the urban development and the policy and planning processes that have resulted from the socio...

Major investments have been made recently along the Illinois River in habitat rehabilitation and enhancement, stream bank stabilization, and conversion of former agri-cultural drainage and levee districts back to floodplains. Past efforts included intense site-specific habitat management, such as manipulation of water levels in floodplain lakes to...

In this paper we have examined the physical and functional changes, and the emerging land-use regulatory responses and issues associated with the installation and use of information and communications technologies (ICT). The empirical evidence was based on a comparative study of several sites in the Chicago and Seoul metropolitan areas. We identifi...

National spatial data infrastructures (SDI) have been built throughout the 1990s in both Australia and the USA, conceptualized and initialized by the Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) and the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), respectively. Numerous SDI-related activities at the national, state, and local levels in both...

Computerised technology and geographical information systems (GIS) are increasingly used in developing countries. International aid organisations have been instrumental in providing initial financial and technical support for the introduction of GIS technology. However, the diffusion of this technology is fraught with the same problems as are assoc...

Despite the numerous difficulties, many agencies and institutions in the United States and worldwide practice sharing of geographic information systems (GIS) and data, amounting to local, regional, national and international spatial data infrastructures. While the evidence on coordinated GIS development and spatial data sharing accumulates, there h...

The urban planning profession and its activities in Eastern and Central Europe have been affected by the political and economic transformation in these countries. The new, still evolving societal and institutional frameworks present urban planners with a highly dynamic context to which they must adapt. In contrast to relatively predictable centrall...

The increased acceptance and use of computerized GIS and digital data sets in private and public organizations in the United States has been in recent years further encouraged by the Federal initiatives which promote sharing of geographic data. In spite of the obvious benefits in terms of efficiency and effectiveness to be derived from sharing geog...

: This paper was prepared in response to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)1999 Summer Assembly application challenge. The purpose of that challenge was to review the achievements and implicationsof geographic information science relevant to urban and regional planning. The review identified five areas of geographi...

In recent years, geographic infor mation systems (GIS) have seen a steady rise in a cceptance and use by a variety of organizations in the United States. From a technical perspective, data is now far easier to share due to its being in electronic form. Proponents of GIS have long argued that the technology can promote organizational efficiencies th...

Better analysis and understanding of local and regional phenomena can result from large scale data built by a variety of local government agencies and private sector organizations. Reducing duplication and saving organizational resources are two main arguments for sharing geographic data and systems. This, however, is quite challenging and requires...

Geographic information systems (GISs) are being introduced into many planning agencies in the United States and abroad. Urban planners find GISs to be effective tools that can help with information management, processing, dissemination, and communication. Yet, initial evidence on the implementation of GIS technology in local governments and plannin...

Widespread diffusion of geographic information systems (GIS) and related proliferation of spatial databases in digital form have prompted the practice of joint development and sharing of geographic databases. The ultimate benefit from the coordinated GIS developments and database sharing is reduced redundancy and duplication of effort and estab- li...

In order to determine the dynamic factors inducing the evolution of environmental management strategies in the context of sustainable development, I draw upon theory from the field of general evolutionary sciences (including chaos theory, complexity science, and nonlinear thermodynamics). I translate this emerging theoretical worldview to a general...

In this paper the empirical findings and basic frameworks used in the evaluation of GIS are reviewed. In the studies reviewed, a variety of evaluation criteria are employed, but they still contribute sporadic, unsystematic, and inconclusive evidence. Going beyond a discussion about the need for measuring GIS impacts, and an uncritical and unselecti...

The main purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient method to design traffic analysis zones (TAZs), which is necessary for implementing a planning process with Geographic Information System (GIS) for Transportation (GIS‐T), using statistical spatial data analyses and GIS technology. The major roles of GIS in this method are: (1) to produce ba...

The purpose of this paper is to implement an efficient method for GIS‐based traffic analysis zone (TAZ) design in order to evaluate and validate such a method. The method was developed by the authors.Moran's I spatial autocorrelation coefficient and sample variance are used for evaluating the generated TAZs using the Champaign‐Urbana, IL region as...

How do perceptions, experience, attitudes, and communication behavior of local government employees affect the adoption of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as an organizational innovation? Nedovic-Budic and Godschalk examine the largely unexplored process of GIS diffusion inside local governments in terms of the impact of human facto...

The goal of this project was to design and develop a prototype web-GIS site that would facilitate monitoring of local urban development. In face of persistent problems with urban sprawl and increasing efforts to curb it with smart growth and other policies, this web site would allow the various stakeholders to: a) review the location, pattern, and...

The increased acceptance and use of computerized GIS and digital data sets in private and public organizations in the United States has been in recent years further encouraged by the Federal initiatives which promote sharing of geographic data. In spite of the obvious benefits in terms of efficiency and effectiveness to be derived from sharing geog...

Despite the dilemmas and questions about its utility and value in environments with more urgent development priorities, computerised technology and geographic information systems (GIS) have been increasingly used in developing countries. A number of international aid organizations such as UNEP, UNESCO, and NORAD have been instrumental in providing...

Research on spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) is not well grounded in theory and SDI practice is often negligent of previous experiences. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about knowledge areas available to academics and professionals involved in studying or developing SDIs. Along with technical tools, both groups need to engage the...