ePlanning: A Snapshot of the Literature on Using the World Wide Web in Urban Planning

Abstract

The phrase e Commerce is now widely used to describe new business relationships and extensions to existing business made possible by the Internet. The task of planning and managing cities has associated with it a set of activities and relationships that can be as complex as in commerce. The authors use the term e Planning to describe using the Internet to advance urban planning and management and have assembled a snapshot of the extensive and growing literature on this topic. This limited snapshot provides a sense of the breadth of literature that is available and also points to some of the key contributions to this important area of scholarly and professional endeavor.