How Digital Planning Stimulate Spatial Justice
Academic Paper
Background: The government decision-making process over the property development proposals planning applications requires a better site context determination, efficient planning information distribution, and communicative stakeholders’ consultation process.
These requirements are the main spatial justice measurements, and it is extraordinarily complex in terms of information types, communications methods, and development stakeholders’ interests. Thus, it is difficult to manage development proposals planning application without making use of the planning websites, online mapping programs, case management software, and document management systems.
Moreover, the paperwork planning process led to lack of communication process, management coordination and community involvement, along with increased time consuming, and invalid planning applications. On the other hand, literature on the urban planning systems have not yet address the impact of the IT programs on city making process, which is the main purpose of the paper.
Method: Based on interpretative, subjective, and qualitative research methods along with previous digital planning experience; the paper will examine the impact of IT programs on spatial development, with reference to two pillars that stimulate sustainable spatial justice, which are the involvement of the spatial information and the planning stakeholders’ interest during the planning application process of the property development proposals.
Result: The paper therefore reveals important sub-topics that would contribute to the impact of digital planning on spatial development. First, it highlights how to prepare planning application using planning website information. Second, the paper addresses the impact of spatial date software on planning application management process. Lastly, the paper examines how case management software determine inclusive consultations processes.
Conclusion: Sustainable urban development requires broad information distributions, multi stakeholders’ involvement, and complex planning applications process. Hence, the planning systems become a crucial study on urban development studies. In that since, the planning systems shall question the digitalization of planning process, not just to stimulate spatial justice, but also to ensure sustainable built environment.
KHALAFALLA OMER 