David R Godschalk
Biographic Data
| ID | 204595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Godschalk |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Godschalk |
| SIGNATURE | GODSCHALK D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Resilient Cities
Resilient cities survive traumatic blows, successfully recovering from major disasters. Resilience is a planning goal and a metaphor for the community that effectively responds to catastrophic stress. Its importance has increased with the increased frequency and severity of natural, technological, and other hazards. Building urban resilience requires advance planning, community organization, resourceful leadership, and robust physical and social …
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1994
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1986
Searching for the Good Plan
Despite the centrality of comprehensive plans to the profession of city and regional planning, there is a gap in knowledge about the quality of plans as they are not routinely evaluated against best practice standards. We discuss plan quality evaluation, an emerging methodology for assessing the quality of plans. We review the evolution of the concept, the dimensions covered, and the principles and criteria used. We then provide a comparative met…
Land Use Planning Challenges
Sustainable development and livable communities represent the big visionary ideas of contemporary urban planning. But attempts to implement these popular visions can encounter a host of conflicts. The future of land use planning may well depend on how it copes with these conflicts. I propose the sustainability/livability prism as a tool to understand and express the conflicts, and I illustrate the prism's usefulness through an application to plan…
Mandating Citizen Participation in Plan Making
In addition to requiring that local governments plan for and manage urban development, state growth management laws require that citizens be given an opportunity to participate in the local planning process. In this article, we examine the strengths and weaknesses of citizen involvement mandates and the degree to which mandates and related local planning practices have resulted in broader citizen participation in plan making. We show that mandate…
Urban Hazard Mitigation
Cities are complex and interdependent systems, extremely vulnerable to threats from both natural hazards and terrorism. This paper proposes a comprehensive strategy of urban hazard mitigation aimed at the creation of resilient cities, able to withstand both types of threats. The paper reviews hazard mitigation practice, defines a resilient city, considers the relationship between resilience and terrorism, and discusses why resilience is important…
Learning at a Distance
How are planning educators responding to the challenges and opportunities of distance education? The authors explore this question through a planning school survey, a case study, and brainstorming about change factors. They find that planning education programs are slow to adopt new technology, except for incorporation of e-mail and Web technology into traditional on-campus courses. Most respondents believe that distance learning will be importan…
Creating Hazard Resilient Communities through Land-Use Planning
The Second National Assessment on Natural and Related Technological Hazards calls land-use planning the single most promising approach for bringing about sustainable hazard mitigation. This article describes the essential elements of land-use planning for hazard mitigation. It highlights important choices involved in formulating planning processes, undertaking hazard assessments, and crafting programs to manage urban development so that it is mor…
Unleashing the Power of Planning to Create Disaster-Resistant Communities
Artist Vita Marie Lovett's art quilt Toto, I've a Feeling We're Not in Miami Anymore includes debris found in her south Florida yard after Hurricane Andrew struck in 1994. She describes it as a “photo documentary of Hurricane Andrew's destruction whirling against a background of broken fabric roof trusses and window frames.” It is dedicated to her friend Jackie Parker Koger who lost her life as a result of the storm, which was the costliest natur…
Human Factors in Adoption of Geographic Information Systems
How do perceptions, experience, attitudes, and communication behavior of local government employees affect the adoption of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as an organizational innovation? Nedovic-Budic and Godschalk examine the largely unexplored of GIS diffusion inside local governments in terms of the impact of human factors, internal organizational context, external organizational environment, and GIS management activities. Usi…
Reshaping America's Urban Agenda
Staffing the Revolution
Computerized information processing is profoundly altering, even revolutionizing, the potential for planning and decision support resulting in greatly increased demand for professionals with the knowledge and skills to use this new technology, especially its expression in geographic information systems (GIS). Drawing upon the authors' experience in teaching GIS to planners, this article proposes a strategy for staffing the planning side of the GI…
Mitigation Strategies and Integrated Emergency Management
Most public officials in the United States are familiar with procedures for reducing risks from single hazards, such as floods, due to the hazard mitigation requirements for obtaining federal flood insurance. Few, however, have thought about devising integrated strategies for reducing risks from multiple hazards, such as floods, earthquakes, and nuclear accidents. This is not doomsday thinking, but a new and more efficient allhazards approach to …
Coproducing Urban Renewal in the Netherlands
Local Growth Management
Organized Citizen Participation in Urban Areas
Human Factors in Adoption of Geographic Information Systems
How do perceptions, experience, attitudes, and communication behavior of local government employees affect the adoption of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as an organizational innovation? Nedovic-Budic and Godschalk examine the largely unexplored of GIS diffusion inside local governments in terms of the impact of human factors, internal organizational context, external organizational environment, and GIS management activities. Usi…
Learning at a Distance
How are planning educators responding to the challenges and opportunities of distance education? The authors explore this question through a planning school survey, a case study, and brainstorming about change factors. They find that planning education programs are slow to adopt new technology, except for incorporation of e-mail and Web technology into traditional on-campus courses. Most respondents believe that distance learning will be importan…
Staffing the Revolution
Computerized information processing is profoundly altering, even revolutionizing, the potential for planning and decision support resulting in greatly increased demand for professionals with the knowledge and skills to use this new technology, especially its expression in geographic information systems (GIS). Drawing upon the authors' experience in teaching GIS to planners, this article proposes a strategy for staffing the planning side of the GI…
Organized Citizen Participation in Urban Areas
Local Growth Management
Coproducing Urban Renewal in the Netherlands
Mitigation Strategies and Integrated Emergency Management
Most public officials in the United States are familiar with procedures for reducing risks from single hazards, such as floods, due to the hazard mitigation requirements for obtaining federal flood insurance. Few, however, have thought about devising integrated strategies for reducing risks from multiple hazards, such as floods, earthquakes, and nuclear accidents. This is not doomsday thinking, but a new and more efficient allhazards approach to …
Staffing the Revolution
Computerized information processing is profoundly altering, even revolutionizing, the potential for planning and decision support resulting in greatly increased demand for professionals with the knowledge and skills to use this new technology, especially its expression in geographic information systems (GIS). Drawing upon the authors' experience in teaching GIS to planners, this article proposes a strategy for staffing the planning side of the GI…
Reshaping America's Urban Agenda
Human Factors in Adoption of Geographic Information Systems
How do perceptions, experience, attitudes, and communication behavior of local government employees affect the adoption of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as an organizational innovation? Nedovic-Budic and Godschalk examine the largely unexplored of GIS diffusion inside local governments in terms of the impact of human factors, internal organizational context, external organizational environment, and GIS management activities. Usi…
Unleashing the Power of Planning to Create Disaster-Resistant Communities
Artist Vita Marie Lovett's art quilt Toto, I've a Feeling We're Not in Miami Anymore includes debris found in her south Florida yard after Hurricane Andrew struck in 1994. She describes it as a “photo documentary of Hurricane Andrew's destruction whirling against a background of broken fabric roof trusses and window frames.” It is dedicated to her friend Jackie Parker Koger who lost her life as a result of the storm, which was the costliest natur…
Creating Hazard Resilient Communities through Land-Use Planning
The Second National Assessment on Natural and Related Technological Hazards calls land-use planning the single most promising approach for bringing about sustainable hazard mitigation. This article describes the essential elements of land-use planning for hazard mitigation. It highlights important choices involved in formulating planning processes, undertaking hazard assessments, and crafting programs to manage urban development so that it is mor…
Learning at a Distance
How are planning educators responding to the challenges and opportunities of distance education? The authors explore this question through a planning school survey, a case study, and brainstorming about change factors. They find that planning education programs are slow to adopt new technology, except for incorporation of e-mail and Web technology into traditional on-campus courses. Most respondents believe that distance learning will be importan…
Mandating Citizen Participation in Plan Making
In addition to requiring that local governments plan for and manage urban development, state growth management laws require that citizens be given an opportunity to participate in the local planning process. In this article, we examine the strengths and weaknesses of citizen involvement mandates and the degree to which mandates and related local planning practices have resulted in broader citizen participation in plan making. We show that mandate…
Urban Hazard Mitigation
Cities are complex and interdependent systems, extremely vulnerable to threats from both natural hazards and terrorism. This paper proposes a comprehensive strategy of urban hazard mitigation aimed at the creation of resilient cities, able to withstand both types of threats. The paper reviews hazard mitigation practice, defines a resilient city, considers the relationship between resilience and terrorism, and discusses why resilience is important…
Land Use Planning Challenges
Sustainable development and livable communities represent the big visionary ideas of contemporary urban planning. But attempts to implement these popular visions can encounter a host of conflicts. The future of land use planning may well depend on how it copes with these conflicts. I propose the sustainability/livability prism as a tool to understand and express the conflicts, and I illustrate the prism's usefulness through an application to plan…
Searching for the Good Plan
Despite the centrality of comprehensive plans to the profession of city and regional planning, there is a gap in knowledge about the quality of plans as they are not routinely evaluated against best practice standards. We discuss plan quality evaluation, an emerging methodology for assessing the quality of plans. We review the evolution of the concept, the dimensions covered, and the principles and criteria used. We then provide a comparative met…
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1986
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1994
Resilient Cities
Resilient cities survive traumatic blows, successfully recovering from major disasters. Resilience is a planning goal and a metaphor for the community that effectively responds to catastrophic stress. Its importance has increased with the increased frequency and severity of natural, technological, and other hazards. Building urban resilience requires advance planning, community organization, resourceful leadership, and robust physical and social …
Business (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Civil engineering (5 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)