Presentation for the conference 'Urban Life and Urban Space Qualities - New Knowledge, Methods and Knowledge Needs\' http://www.detmangfoldigebyrum.dk/conferenceurbanqualities/uk/

1. Tracks, maps and urban planning
ir. Jeroen van Schaick & courtesy of dr.ir.Stefan van der Spek
j.vanschaick@tudelft.nl
www.bk.tudelft.nl/urbanismontrack

4. What about tracking studies
in light of urban design
and planning questions?

5. Tracking data provide valuable insights
about urban quality
Visualising tracking data = creating maps
Maps = key language in urban design and planning
Sets of maps = building a design argument
Are we building visual stories that are
relevant to urban design questions?

6. Something about urban design
theory…
Trancik (1986) Finding Lost Space – Theories of Urban Design

7. Something about urban planning
theory…
“uniplex metropolis” vs. “multiplex metropolis”
Patsy Healey – Spatial imaginations and urban ‘region’strategies

8. What do these theoretical
viewpoints share?
The plea to pay attention to multiple
viewpoints in urban design and
planning questions
..so the one map is not enough!

9. Ways of looking at tracking data in
sets of visualisations
1. Sets of multiple mappings of tracking data on a single scale
2. Sets of multiple mappings of tracking data on multiple scales
3. Sets of tracking maps combined with maps with ‘exogeneous’ data
…compiled as coherent visual stories??
some examples…

10. TYPE I : Sets of multiple mappings of tracking data
On a single scale
Viewpoints:
1. Switching between different
computer frames as map
creator or user
2. Showing a diversity of
patterns of space and time
use within a data set
3. Comparing data sets
Source: Andrienko et al., Visual Analytics Methods for Movement Data. In:
Giannotti, F. and Pedreschi, D. (Eds) Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy -
Geographic Knowledge Discovery. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2008, p.377

11. TYPE II : Sets of multiple mappings of
tracking data on multiple scales
Stills from dynamic maps
All GPS-tracks dynamically All GPS-locations with ‘2-hour-tale’
projected on a regional scale projected on a local scale

12. TYPE II : Sets of multiple mappings of
tracking data on multiple scales
Selection of tracks: Selection of tracks: Selection of tracks:
only local trips only urban trips only regional trips
All tracks All tracks All tracks

13. TYPE III : Compiling sets of tracking maps
combined with maps with ‘exogeneous’ data
Source: Harsema, 1998
Source: Dupuy, 2009
use
buildings
public space
urban image
construction
urban
urban ground plan
Interaction between urban processes as Overlay as organizing principle
organizing principle of a set of maps of a set of maps

14. A type-III-example of a design-oriented story using both GPS-
tracks and other urban analysis maps…
Extract from:
Spek, S.C. van der, 2008, Mapping Pedestrian Movement: Using Tracking Technologies in Koblenz. In:Garther, G. et al,
Location Based Services and TeleCartography II, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. SpringerLink, pp.
95-118

15. Commercial activity Points of interest Accessibility
All tracks - 2 access points Tracks – Löhr-Center Tracks – Görresplatz
Investments Koblenz ...overlay with tracks …shift in future focus?

16. Conclusion
Each type of set offers particular challenges, opportunities and
pitfalls to be addressed prior to data collection
Towards a qualitative research agenda on map use in tracking
studies?
> who is ‘using’ our maps? (what is ‘using’?)
> what do policy makers see when they look at our maps?
> can we increase the added value of tracking studies for
urban design and planning?

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