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Dissertation Defense: Planning Support Systems for Spatial Planning Through Social Learning
1. Planning Support Systems for Spatial Planning
Through Social Learning
Robert Goodspeed
Dissertation Defense
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
May 22, 2013
Dissertation Committee:
Professor Joseph Ferreira, Jr. (chair)
Professor Annette M. Kim
Professor Brent D. Ryan
Fig. 5.3c
2. Introduction
• Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible!
• Figures and tables are labeled with their numbers from
the dissertation.
It is an exciting time for U.S. metropolitan
spatial planning …
2
3. Vignette: Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo: Flickr/arbyreed
1990s 1999-present
Photo: Flickr/Porchista
• Adopted Envision Utah/Quality Growth Strategy
• 40+ miles of new light rail, 50 stations
• New TOD: Daybreak (4,000 acres, 10k people, 1 in 6
new homes being sold in Utah, 70% walk to school)
• 1970-1990, 65% population growth,
38% growth in land area
(Kolankiewicz and Beck 2001)
3See Briggs (2008), Matheson (2011), and Scheer (2012)
4. New Planning Practices have Emerged …
4
Sacramento spatial planning workshop. Laptop
running I-PLACE3S PSS. Photo: SACOG.
Envision Utah planning workshop. Outputs from
participatory meetings analyzed in GIS to create two
alternative scenarios, subsequent meetings have
used PSS. Photo: Envision Utah.
Weston Nursery: Sasaki developed and used
computer tool: “The software would do the scenario, so
if you changed the density you get new numbers ...
[helped people] argue about what it means, [develop] a
bit of a common language.”
5. … that Feature New Spatial Planning Support Systems
Envision
Tomorrow
INDEX Urban
Footprint
I-PLACE3S
Where?
Across the
U.S.
30 states and
6 countries
California
Metros
Metro
Sacramento
Illustrative
Indicators
• Estimated Vehicle Miles Traveled / Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Impervious Surface
• Housing Diversity / Affordability
• Energy Use
• Air Quality
INDEX PlanBuilder Getting Started Guide
505/200 59 June 2010
Indicator maps are also accessed through the Indicator Results table by clicking the map icon in the
right-side column.
I-PLACE3S User Guide Chapter 8
Page 90 Revised: 4/29/08
Figure 108
Select Mark Place Type from the command menu and then select the Place Type you'd like to
mark (Figure 109). Clicking on a polygon will mark all parcels that are contained within the
polygon with the Place Type you have selected.
Figure 109
For tool description see Chapter 3. 5
6. Research Motivation
• Many forces at work in new spatial planning practice, my
interest is in the creation and implementation of specific
spatial plans.
• GIS and new planning support systems (PSS) are widespread
in professional practice (Grant, Rooney, and Assasie 2010; Condon, Cavens
and Miller 2009; Hoglund 2011)
• Time is ripe for close empirical examination of these
processes:
• Opportunity to learn from and scrutinize professional techniques
• Context to answer theoretical questions about planning & social
learning
• Provide useful insights at a time of rapid technological development
• This dissertation is set in regional planning contexts but NOT
about regional planning as a whole – only one part of it.
6
7. Overview
1. Introduction
2. Theories & Previous Research
3. Hypotheses, Cases and Research Methodology
4. Results
5. Discussion & Topics for Future Research
6. Conclusion
7
9. The “oft-foretold revolution in computer-aided
planning” has arrived!
9
Galveston, Texas
Cape Cod, Mass.
Meridian, Idaho
Medford, Mass.
Sources: Medford (MAPC), Marshfield (author), all
others from CommunityViz case studies
South Holland, Netherlands
Marshfield, Mass.
(Similar to Fig. 5.9)
Klosterman (1997)
10. Theoretical Perspectives on PSS
10
GIS-based modeling systems used for:
• Interactive Representation
• Rule Extrapolation
• Indicator Construction and Calculation
Used in specific sociocultural practices
(spatial planning)
Alternative theoretical perspectives:
• Social Learning: Changes to factual knowledge, skills, attitudes, and emergence of new
collective understanding (Wenger 1998; Muro and Jeffrey 2008; Holden 2008).
• Social choice: Planning primarily about trade-offs, interests and preferences pre-existing
(Sager 2002; Arrow 1951).
• Structured coercion: Elite manipulation or coercion (Peattie 1987; Arnstein 1969).
11. Theoretical Approach
Artifacts
Methods
Tools
Behavioral
Theories
Social Learning
Psychology
Framing Theories
Collaborative Planning
Pragmatism
Diagram inspired by Allmendinger (2002)
See Chapter 2 for full description of theoretical framework.
“Design Research”
March and Smith (1995)
Hevner et al. (2004)
Planning Support Systems
Participatory GIS
Link learning & planning:
• Frames (Schön and Rein 1994)
• Institutions (e.g., Powell and Dimaggio 1991;
Kim 2011) 11
12. Which scales?
12
Planning Process
Knowledge Infrastructure
Interacti
on
Opportu
nities
Interacti
on
Opportu
nities
Individual interaction
LongerScalesofSpace&Time
Micro
Meso
Macro
After Edwards (2003)
14. Previous Paradigms Do Not Fully Describe
Planning Practice
Burnham (1909);
Calthorpe (2001)
Kent (1964)
Susskind (1987);
Healey (1997)
Davidoff (1965)
Bartholomew and
Ewing (2008)
14
15. Spatial planning combines communicative,
instrumental, strategic, and value rationality.
Albrecht (2004) 15
16. What is (Social) Learning?
• Historical Views
• Behaviorism (Skinner 1974)
• Constructionism (Piaget 1963)
• Psychological Social Learning (Bandura 1977)
• Individual development in an environment (Vygotsky, from Rogoff 1990)
• Phylogenic – slowly changing species history (genes)
• Sociocultural – changing cultural history, artifacts & norms
• Ontogenetic – Changes in individuals over their life history, such as
childhood or educational experiences
• Microgenetic – “moment-to-moment learning by individuals” built on
specific genetic and sociocultural backgrounds.
• “Social” perspectives emphasize the importance of social context in
understanding individual development, and the emergence of uniquely
social phenomenon like new understandings
16
17. Social Learning Theories
• Macro (Sociocultural)
• Frames (Schön and Rein 1994) and Institutional Theory (e.g., Kim 2011, 2012;
Powell and Dimaggio 1991)
• Diffusion Theory (Rogers 2003)
• Meso (Ontogenetic and collective)
• Organizational Learning (single/double loop) (Argyris and Schön 1978, 1996)
• Wenger (1998)
• Micro (Microgenetic)
• Wenger’s “social theory of learning” (1998)
• Three infrastructures for design: imagination, alignment, and engagement
• Design for learning:
• participation/reification
• designed/emergent
• local/global
• identification/negotiability
17
19. Operationalizing Learning
Single Loop/”Factual” Learning
• “I learned a great deal.”
• Widespread use in education assessment, correlated with student stimulation (Holmes
1971)
Double Loop Learning
• Five questions used to create a summative scale (Spector 1992)
• Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.82 for all surveys, 0.86 for Austin workshops
19Table 4.1
20. Categorizing Computation in Planning
• Many possible ways to categorized models/tools: substance, technical or theoretical
approach, complexity (e.g., Klosterman 2012; Klosterman and Pettit 2012; Landis 2011)
• “Epistemic lifestyles” of climate modeling (Shackley 2001)
• Study informed by studies in participatory GIS and modeling and GIS evaluation
(Arciniegas, Janssen, and Rietveld 2012; Jones et al. 2009; Salter et al. 2009; Smith et al. 2012; Nyerges and
Aguirre 2011; Schively 2007; Van den Belt 2004; Cockerill, Tidwell, and Passell 2004)
20
Urban System Models Planning Support Systems
Primary focus
Represent complexity of
urban system
Practical usefulness in
planning process
Advantages
(selected)
Capture interactions &
emergent behavior of
complex systems
Practical, easier to understand
&
less data required
Disadvantages
(selected)
High cost and complexity
Limited topical scope, simplicity
can lead to misleading results
Examples UrbanSim, SLEUTH
CommunityViz, Envision
Tomorrow
For discussion see Chapter 3
22. Research Questions & Hypotheses
22
Research Questions
• Q1: How do spatial PSS contribute to social learning in participatory workshops, in
light of evolving technology and infrastructure?
• Q2: What characteristics of the sociotechnical PSS process facilitate single loop
and double loop learning?
• Q3: How do metropolitan regions develop a sociotechnical infrastructure for social
learning in spatial planning?
Summary of Hypotheses
Q1 and Q2:
• What type of workshops resulted in the greatest learning? How did PSS compare
with paper maps only? (1.1)
• What factors of the workshop and participant backgrounds helped explain this
learning? (1.2, 1.3 2.1, 2.2)
• What is the relationship between the two learning measures at the workshops?
Are they complements or substitutes? (2.3)
Q3:
• What can we learn from applying Rogers’ theory of the diffusion of innovations or
frame analysis to understand how PSS are developed?
23. Potential Cases
• Boston
• Hingham Master Plan
• Marshfield Buildout and
Alternative Futures Project
• North Suburban Priority
Mapping Project
• Boston (BRA)
• Fairmount-Indigo Planning
Initiative
• Austin
• Hutto
• Dripping Springs
• Elgin
• Lockhart
• Austin
• Kansas City
• State Avenue Corridor
• North Oak
• U.S. 40
• Troost
• Rock Island
• Shawnee Mission/Metcalf
• Others
• Singapore
• Tacoma, WA
• East Tennessee
• Central Arkansas
• Provincetown, MA
• North Kingstown, RI
23
24. Final Cases
• Boston
• Hingham Master Plan
• Marshfield Buildout and
Alternative Futures Project
• North Suburban Priority
Mapping Project
• Boston (BRA)
• Fairmount-Indigo Planning
Initiative
• Austin
• Hutto
• Dripping Springs
• Elgin
• Lockhart
• Austin
• Kansas City
• State Avenue Corridor
• North Oak
• U.S. 40
• Troost
• Rock Island
• Shawnee Mission/Metcalf
• Others
• Singapore
• Tacoma, WA
• East Tennessee
• Central Arkansas
• Provincetown, MA
• North Kingstown, RI
24
26. Workshop Data Collection Summary
Additional data sources:
• Key informant interviews
• Many internal documents/meetings
• Two planner focus groups
Table 4.7
26
36. Austin Workshop Interaction Design
36
Map
d
d d
Development Type
Chips
Descriptive
Indicators
Project
Plan
Existing
Plans
External
Knowledge
Participants
Digitizer
Fig. 5.1
38. Paper Map Exercises
Upham’s Corner Visioning Forum North Suburban Priority Mapping Project
Public Forum
Fig. 5.13
Fig. 5.12
Fig. 5.6
Fig. 5.7
38
39. Does participant personality explain learning?
Percentage of
Participants
Sensation Seeking
(e.g., Zuckerman 1979)
Goal Orientation
(e.g., Locke and
Latham 1990)
Very strong preference
(≈ 95th percentile) 84.1% 58.6%
Moderate preference
(≈ 50th percentile) 9.9% 21.2%
Low Preference
(< 50th percentile) 5.9% 20.2%
Operationalization and percentile from Jackson’s Learning Styles Profiler
instrument (Jackson 2005). For integrated model see also O’Connor and
Jackson (2008) and Jackson (2008).
Table 5.7
39
40. Participation, Identification, and Reification of
PSS and Learning Variables
• Participation not strongly related with either type of learning; may also
reflect the lack of participation in this project as a whole
• Agreeing with the statements, “The computer tool reflects my unique
issues and concerns” (identification) and “workshop participants felt free
to question the outputs from the computer tool” (reification) were
positively related to learning.
40
Table 5.8
41. Analyzing the Learning Context
Source: Wenger (1998: 237)
Also:
• Participant Self-Perception (Rogoff 1990; Lave and Wenger 1991)
41
44. Model Summary
Positive Impact on Double
Loop Index
• Wenger’s model
• Participant identity
• Learning from model
feedback (imagination)
Negative Impact on Double
Loop Index
• Attend frequent meetings
• 3D visual rendering
(possibly)
44
Differences in model for Reported Learning:
• Identity and previous meetings less important
• Larger coefficients on PSS variables, smaller on
discussion-related variables
47. The Puzzle of Non-Adoption
Kansas City Creating Sustainable Places:
• HUD funding
• Fregonese & Associates provided detailed, day-long
trainings to project planners on Envision Tomorrow
• Original focus on new PSS has shifted to focus on
“toolbox,” and only two of the corridors using it in any
way at all
• Why?
47
48. First Perspective: Diffusion of Innovations
Rogers (2003) diffusion characteristics:
• Relative advantage
• Compatibility
• Complexity
• Trialability
• Observability
Theory predicts slow adoption
However, poorly describes PSS – uniquely dependent on
contextual factors
48
Wikipedia Authors, “Diffusion of Innovations,” Last modified
18 May 2013.
49. Second Perspective: Frames
• Kansas City Planner: “If we were using it more
appropriately, none of us could perceive it could be handy that way.
We saw a bunch of quantitative numbers … I didn’t realize it could
be used in a visionary planning kind of way.”
• Uncertain role for PSS in Focus Groups:
• Provide factual inputs?
• Help develop a “bit of a common language”?
• “Make them think … allowed some questions to be asked”?
• Reconcile “tradeoffs” and “competing values”?
• Conclusion: Adoption requires professional reframing, one reason
PSS are adopted as part of a new planning paradigm (scenario
planning)
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51. Discussion Issues
• Demographics: Limited ability to explore
race, culture, class.
• Gender: Qualitative evidence that highly gendered
patterns occurred for one table, facilitators helped avoid
elsewhere
• The Black Box: Two “errors,” only one detected, raise
important issues regarding trust and transparency
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52. Recommendations
1. Planners should incorporate PSS into projects, focusing
on their use to facilitate stakeholder dialog and learning.
2. Metropolitan planning agencies should use projects to
develop PSS and broader IT capacity.
3. Planning agencies should cultivate organizational
learning, including evaluating workshops and projects.
4. Planning researchers should develop theoretical models
which acknowledge dimensions beyond communicative
rationality
5. Planning as a field needs sociotechnical research and
research paradigms in planning (forthcoming article)
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53. Further Research
Developed in Optional Slides:
• Trust in PSS
• Linking micro and macro
• Analyzing PSS as sociotechnical infrastructures
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55. Conclusions
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A survey finds find very high reported learning and double
loop index scores at workshops which use PSS. Designs
which use a mediated PSS have the highest learning
outcomes. Participant personality and planner identity
partly explains learning. Findings confirm the
communicative planning paradigm, but with a framing
theory that adds additional dimensions.
In these cases, participation in PSS development is not
related to learning measures, but there must be high
identification and low reification of the PSS, translating
and testing Wenger’s theory in a new context.
Qualitative evidence suggests that while “innovation
characteristics” from conventional diffusion theory explain
slow adoption, the durability of professional frames is a
more nuanced explanation.
56. Thank you!
Robert Goodspeed
PhD Candidate
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
rgoodspe at mit.edu
Fall 2013
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Michigan
rgoodspe at umich.edu
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Editor's Notes
I’d like to provide a few additional examples of tools that are used in very similar ways …Add ET– first one go backwards
Applied previous slides to this particular tool
Planning Paradigms:Civic Design - Design that reflects assumed values - Plan of ChicagoExpert Practice Land Use Planning - Application of expert knowledge through instrumental rationality forecasting - Kent (1964), Perhaps ChapinNegotiation - Focus on communicative rationality - Susskind (1987); Healey (1996)Advocacy - Focus on strategic rationality - Davidoff (1965)Futures Analysis/Scenario Planning - Explicit attention to value and instrumental rationality - Bartholomew and Ewing (2008)Explain flaw.I needed a normative theory of practice that included all the dimensions at work. Albrecht’s spatial provided a useful framework. It allowed me to see the history of land use planning through a new prism, emphasizing elements that remain present in contemporary practice. Early heroic plans like Burnham’s plan of Chicago not dictatorial, but visionary designs for consideration, since as ?? explained was filtered through democratic processes since even road widenings required a vote and planning had not yet been institutionalized with legal powers. Subsequent movements emphasized different dimensions.
Strategic spatial planning is a “public-sector-led sociospatial process through which a vision, actions, and means for implementation are produced that shape and frame what a place is and may become” that is characterized by multiple forms of rationality:Communicative (understanding from deliberation)Instrumental (identifying optimal means for achieving goals)Strategic (addressing power relationships)Value (design of alternative futures)Theoretical approach arose in a European context because they needed a definition transcend national traditions
Argyris and SchonEvidence seeking behaviorI was able to get answers to the questions I had. [Q12]Valid informationWorkshop participants discussed the issues in an open way. [Q15; D101]Free and informed choiceOther participants at the workshop listened to what I had to say. [Q11]Alternative viewpoints were considered at the workshop. [Q16]Internal commitment to choiceI would support recommendations created by the participants of this workshop. [Q18; related to D117]http://blog.crisp.se/2012/02/06/anderslaestadius/congruent-leadership
Feedback is accomplished through a person who is responsible for operating the model and reporting back to the group.The broad perspective from human computer interaction is what Paul Dourish calls “embodied computing,” the focus should be on the setting, not narrowly on the technical artifact. This is an important shift in focus from much of the previous PSS research.
Recess: planning support systems and how they work Next I wanted to trace out why and how. Was it because people could see the visualizations – only one type – for envisioning. When it came to the deliberative process, the group worked with the model through intermediaries, namely a map, sticker chips, and a computer operator. The operator as an interpreter and human interface played a key role. Two workshops, one about halfway through someone went around to each table, announcing basic indicators of what they had designed so far. At the other one, only a few tables reported back. Reported learning significantly lower at the second versus the first. (Need to statistically control for other dimensions).
If it was a random sample, expect 5%, but I found 84%