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Developing an Integrated Scenario-based Urban Resilience Planning Support System

Fu, Xin
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6155-0549
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1505209563652198

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2017, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Regional Development Planning.
This dissertation assesses the application of Ecoaesthetics as a theoretical basis for planning urban resilience. Ecoaesthetics concerns modifying aesthetic sensory experience by instilling greater ecological knowledge and emphasizes the integration of environmental protection and development as a means for enhancing the human experience. As such, a resilient city based on Ecoaesthetics provides for effective ecological functions as well as valid economic and social abilities, and ultimately increases an urban area’s capacity for absorption, mitigation, and adaptation to different disturbances. This research uses scenario generation and modeling, and urban resilience capacity assessment to apply an Ecoaesthetics framework to resilience planning for Hamilton County, Ohio. The final product is a Scenario-Based Urban Resilience Planning Support System (SB-URPSS) that serves as a decision-making tool for planners, community leaders and the general public. The SB-URPSS combines elements of ecological, economic and social system functions to assess land use changes under different scenarios. These scenarios are compared using a composite Urban Resilience Capacity Index (URCI). Seven scenarios set over 20 years are used to test the application of the SB-URPSS. As a control, a baseline scenario maintains historic land use trends. Two scenarios, an environmental protection-focused scenario and an economic development-focused scenario, are developed as comparison. Four different versions of Ecoaesthetics scenarios are created by the integration principle. To address environmental protection, they all preserve existing undeveloped land in the same amount. To address valid economic and social abilities, the combination of intensity of developed land and infill development leads four scenarios. The intensity of developed land adopts a moderate intensity the Chicago model and a high intensity the Philadelphia model. The infill development policy for vacant lots has two versions: one convers the vacant lots to open space and the other, to developed land. This research also has sought to use quantitative and objective methods as part of Multiple Criteria Evaluation (MCE) that could improve selecting, scoring and weighting suitability factors for the Cellular Automata-Markov land use simulation model. This would allow suitability factors to be derived from local historic land use data and thereby establish a link between the MCE process and the actual local historical land use trends. Finally, this research assesses scenarios with a composite Urban Resilience Capacity Index (URCI), which reflects the multiple-dimensions of city resilience, addressing urban system, physical form, and spatial structure for urban resilience plans. The URCI can assist planners and other stakeholders to identify planning scenarios that can achieve high, overall, ecological, economic, and social quality. Results from the scenarios demonstrate how an Ecoaesthetics approach can better build a resilient urban area with preserving undeveloped land, intensifying employment-creating land use, and utilizing infill development strategies. To conclusion, this dissertation proposes Ecoaesthetics as a theoretical basis could guide planners to make a resilient city actionable and practical. The dynamic scenario-based and public engaged SB-URPSS and URCI are enable decision makers to think of urban resilience planning as integration, which includes, but is not limited to, ecological integrity, economic gains, or social satisfaction.
Xinhao Wang, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Christopher Auffrey, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Danilo Palazzo, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
185 p.
Urban Planning
urban resilience; Ecoaesthetics; planning support system; integration; scenario planning; assessment

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  • Fu, X. (2017). Developing an Integrated Scenario-based Urban Resilience Planning Support System [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1505209563652198

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fu, Xin. Developing an Integrated Scenario-based Urban Resilience Planning Support System. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1505209563652198.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fu, Xin. "Developing an Integrated Scenario-based Urban Resilience Planning Support System." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1505209563652198

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