A new perspective paper in Landscape and Urban Planning

Based on a set of global exemplars, the Essay outlines six key factors that can enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments to guide knowledge-informed landscape and urban planning.

• Key factor #1 ”Engage with the SETS relationships that shape the system” is illustrated in a case study in Singapore through the design and planning for nature-based urban cooling
  
• Key factor #2 “Consider cross-scale dynamics” is illustrated in Zürich, Switzerland through the integration of the above- and below ground planning
  
• Key factor #3 “Foster imagination beyond the ordinary” is illustrated in a case study in Madagascar through visioning the forest-frontier
  
• Key factor #4 “Support multiple senses” is illustrated in a case study in Switzerland through the integration of emotions in renewable energy planning
  
• Key factor #5 “Integrate active sensing by and with people” is illustrated in a case study in Turku, Finland through co-designing broadly accepted city block plans
  
• Key factor #6 “Provide usability assessment” is illustrated in the City of Kimberley, Canada through customizing 3D digital environments for climate change awareness
  

We conclude by recommending the establishment of a collaborative knowledge platform that unites researchers, developers, and stakeholders for stimulating social-ecological-technological system thinking in the development of 3D digital environments and harnessing the technological advancements to accelerate and drive the needed transformative change within urban and landscape planning.

More information is found here: external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104978