Stan Geertman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3718896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stan Geertman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stan |
| FAMILY NAME | Geertman |
| SIGNATURE | GEERTMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8824-0484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 439 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
A Socio‐Spatial Extension of the Local Climate Zone Typology: Its Potential in Computational Planning Support Systems
Computational planning support systems (CPSS) have been invaluable for the transparent and rational planning of climate‐resilient cities as they help clarify and optimise the trade‐offs between alternative choices. CPSS have shown great promise also as digital design boards for the co‐creation of new solutions. However, both as a tool and a theoretical stance to spatial planning, CPSS have suffered from top‐down representations of urban space. Bo…
Digital planning for sustainable urban future
Urban Chatter: Exploring the potential of ChatGPT-like and generative AI in enhancing planning support
Gender difference in space-time fixity from household structure in urban China: A case study of Beijing
Space-time constraints caused by employment and family responsibilities may lead to greater gender differences in behavioural possibilities. However, only a few studies have directly investigated the effect of household structure on gender differences. This study uses a dataset of activity diaries collected in Beijing to investigate how family structure affects space-time constraints across genders. As a follow-up study, it also investigates the …
From PSScience to digital planning: Steps towards an integrated research and practice agenda for digital planning
Up till now, a widely accepted definition of Digital Planning is missing. Following the Editorial, digital planning is defined as the application of digital technologies and data-driven approaches to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and inclusivity in planning processes to improve social, economic, and environmental outcomes for a sustainable urban future. It is necessary to clarify the distinction between Digital Planning and two associated te…
Tailored Flood Risk Communication: Residents’ Perspectives as a Starting Point
Flood risk is increasing, and residents are expected to undertake adaptation measures to minimize flood damage. This requires them to be aware of the risk they face and how they can adapt, but this is often not the case. Through risk communication, residents’ relation to their flood-prone environment could be strengthened, but the effect remains limited. This article aims to understand how residents across countries prefer flood risk communicatio…
Factors influencing the performance of virtual reality in urban planning: Evidence from a View corridor Virtual Reality project, Beijing
Virtual reality (VR) technologies, as new forms of planning support systems (PSSs), are becoming increasingly vital to planning. However, there is a lack of empirical research on factors influencing VR’s supportive role from a user perspective, thus producing barriers to VR’s advancement in planning practices. This neglect motivates the focus of this study, in which we adapt relevant PSS theory to build a conceptual framework that examines factor…
Hacking Corporate Smart Cities Under Covid-19: Towards a Smart Governance Approach
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed huge challenges on smart cities, requiring a reimagining and transformation of their governance structures. This viewpoint argues that a smart governance approach should be applied to remodel the uniform, often technocratic and corporate-led way of coping with COVID-19 in the smart city context. There is a need to develop more technology-enabled collaborative actions across sectors and among various actors to rec…
Planning First, Tools Second: Evaluating the Evolving Roles of Planning Support Systems in Urban Planning
Planning support systems (PSS), as geo-information technology instruments, have been developed to support planning as urban planning is becoming highly complex. Recent advances in new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of smart cities have provided new potentials to enrich PSS-support functions, but they do not constitute a “silver bullet;” in fact, PSS’s potential roles in practice are impeded by fundamental and str…
Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-Covid Era
The effects of jobs, amenities, and locations on housing submarkets in Xiamen City, China
Numerous studies have found that jobs, amenities, and location influence housing prices in urban areas. However, there is still a lack of in-depth understanding of the impacts of these factors on various housing submarkets within a city. With the case study of Xiamen, this paper investigates the impacts of jobs, amenities, and location on four housing submarkets, classified by owner-occupied and rental housing, in inner and outer districts. The h…
Interaction effects of socioeconomic factors on long-distance commuting after disentangling residential self-selection: An empirical study in Xiamen, China
Citizen participation in the smart city: Findings From an International Comparative Study
This article focuses on understanding the dynamics of citizen participation in smart city initiatives. With different degrees of emphases, the literature identifies citizens as key actors in smart cities. At the same time, our understanding of their roles and influence is underdeveloped. Using modes of urban governance to provide contextual depth, alongside the literature on citizen participation in smart cities, this article conducts an in-depth…
Smart Urban Governance for Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change will affect the way cities work substantially. Flooding and urban heating are among the most tangible consequences in cities around the globe. Extreme hydro-meteorological events will likely increase in the future due to climate change. Making cities climate-resilient is therefore an urgent challenge to sustain urban living. To adapt cities to the consequences of climate change, new ideas and concepts need to be adopted. This often…
Less is More? Evaluating Technical Aspects and User Experiences of Smart Flood Risk Assessment Tools
In light of several recent large-scale flooding events worldwide, the urgency of involving residents in the flood risk management debate is growing. However, this has so far proven to be problematic, mainly because of lacking or ineffective communication between stakeholders. One way to better involve residents in the flood risk management debate is by developing smart applications, dedicated to facilitate and increase the insights of residents i…
Ignorance is bliss? An empirical analysis of the determinants of PSS usefulness in practice
Planning support systems (PSS) enabled by smart city technologies (big data and information and communication technologies (ICTs)) are becoming more widespread in their availability, but have not yet been fully recognized as being useful in planning practice. Thus, a better understanding of the determinants of PSS usefulness in practice helps to improve the functional support of PSS for smart cities. This study is based on a recent international …
Life is a scene and we are the actors: Assessing the usefulness of planning support theatres for smart city planning
There are numerous studies on the identification and explanation of the implementation gap of planning support systems (PSS), that support the smart planning process by analyzing and visualizing data, but which are currently not systematically used in urban planning practice. There is insufficient knowledge about how the PSS implementation gap can be bridged and how PSS can be embedded into the planning process. This study provides insight into h…
Avoiding the planning support system pitfalls? What smart governance can learn from the planning support system implementation gap
The implementation of smart governance in government policies and practices is criticised for its dominant focus on technology investments, which leads to a rather technocratic and corporate way of ‘smartly’ governing cities and less consideration of actual user needs. To help prevent a mismatch between the demand for and the supply of technology, this paper explores what smart governance can learn from efforts in debates on planning support syst…
Planning support science: Developments and challenges
In this paper, we provide an update of recent developments and forthcoming challenges in the field of planning support systems, following earlier reviews in 2003 and 2009. The rationale for this update is the rapid development of information and communication technologies and their impact on planning support systems. After a brief retrospective assessment of past planning support system developments, the paper presents a synthesis of the experien…
What does urban informatics add to planning support technology
Smart urban governance: An alternative to technocratic “smartness”
This paper argues for a specific urban planning perspective on smart governance that we call "smart urban governance," which represents a move away from the technocratic way of governing cities often found in smart cities. A framework on smart urban governance is proposed on the basis of three intertwined key components, namely spatial, institutional, and technological components. To test the applicability of the framework, we conducted an intern…
Heterogeneity of public participation in urban redevelopment in Chinese cities: Beijing versus Guangzhou
Chinese cities, especially large cities, are in urgent need of urban redevelopment but social conflicts in redevelopment processes have threatened social stability. Public participation has been stipulated in national policies to alleviate these conflicts and the responsibility to implement these policies has been delegated to local governments. Therefore, the features of public participation may differ between Chinese cities. Yet, a systematic i…
Roles and Motivations of Planning Professionals Who Promote Public Participation in Urban Planning Practice: Two Case Studies from Beijing, China
Public participation in urban planning is a contested issue in China. In this article, we look at the endogenous mechanism of institutional change, by analyzing the roles and motivations of “third-party” planning professionals in two contrasting cases: a government-led and a citizen-led participatory practice. Findings show that planners were advocates of citizen participation in heritage preservation in both cases and acted as “mediators” in the…
Does mapping improve public participation? Exploring the pros and cons of using public participation GIS in urban planning practices
While participatory urban and regional planning have become a widely accepted approach to enhance the democratic aims of community and urban development, challenges still remain. Planners lack the knowledge of usable tools to reach broader groups of participants, which can turn participation into a small-group elitist activity. Also, the quality and utilisation of the knowledge produced is problematic, the collected data remains invisible and sys…
Smart Governance For Sustainable Cities: Findings from a Systematic Literature Review
This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on smart governance, defined as technology-enabled collaboration between citizens and local governments to advance sustainable development. The lack of empirical evidence on the positive outcomes of smart cities/smart governance motivated us to conduct this study. Our findings show that empirical evidence for the alleged sustainability benefits is sparse. In addition, the emerging picture …
The development and redevelopment of urban villages in Shenzhen
The Land-Use Diversity in Urban Villages in Shenzhen
China's dynamic urbanisation since 1978 has led to the proliferation of so-called 'urban villages' in many cities. Their development, via a self-help approach by indigenous villagers, delivers low-cost housing and various other social and economic activities. Consequently, urban villages are characterised by growing numbers of buildings and a mix of functions, including residential, industrial, commercial, and public services. These uses enable d…
Access to homeownership in urban China: A comparison between skilled migrants and skilled locals in Nanjing
Spatial Analyses of the Urban Village Development Process in Shenzhen, China
Urban villages are widespread in many Chinese cities, providing affordable and accessible housing for rural migrants. These urban villages develop rapidly over time to create more housing units and accommodate increasing numbers of residents. This article provides systematic analyses of urban village development in Shenzhen in the period 1999-2009. It reveals that the development of urban villages was driven by the overall planning and urban grow…
A conceptual framework on modes of governance for the regeneration of Chinese ‘villages in the city’
China’s rapid urbanisation has created a special form of urban built environment known as ‘village in the city’ (ViC). Various governance approaches have been applied to redevelop ViCs, which are prevalent in big cities. However, owing to the specific conditions of ViCs and the diverse contexts of urban development within and across cities, those approaches remain largely case-specific and are hampered by a lack of guiding principles. This articl…
Residential Mobility of Skilled Migrants in Nanjing, China
Economic restructuring and the dramatic expansion of higher education have generated large migration flows of skilled employees to Chinese cities. The residential mobility of skilled migrants has a large impact on the operation of housing and labour markets and the (re)production of social inequities. In this paper we examine the effects of life-course trajectories and institutional factors on the residential mobility of skilled migrants, in comp…
Institutional determinants of brownfield formation in Chinese cities and urban villages
The chain effects of property-led redevelopment in Shenzhen: Price-shadowing and indirect displacement
Citizen participation in the smart city: Findings From an International Comparative Study
This article focuses on understanding the dynamics of citizen participation in smart city initiatives. With different degrees of emphases, the literature identifies citizens as key actors in smart cities. At the same time, our understanding of their roles and influence is underdeveloped. Using modes of urban governance to provide contextual depth, alongside the literature on citizen participation in smart cities, this article conducts an in-depth…
Heterogeneity of public participation in urban redevelopment in Chinese cities: Beijing versus Guangzhou
Chinese cities, especially large cities, are in urgent need of urban redevelopment but social conflicts in redevelopment processes have threatened social stability. Public participation has been stipulated in national policies to alleviate these conflicts and the responsibility to implement these policies has been delegated to local governments. Therefore, the features of public participation may differ between Chinese cities. Yet, a systematic i…
Bottlenecks Blocking Widespread Usage of Planning Support Systems
Research on planning support systems (PSS) is characterized by a strong emphasis on the supply side, whereas little research has been undertaken on the successes and failures in the adoption of PSS within the planning community (demand side). What becomes clear from the existing research is that usage is not widespread. In this paper we aim to find the main bottlenecks blocking the widespread use of PSS in spatial planning. To achieve this, a glo…
Making the 'Invisible' Visible: Redevelopment-induced Displacement of Migrants in Shenzhen, China
Gentrification in China is intertwined with urban redevelopment, which causes the large-scale displacement of rural-urban migrants from 'villages in the city' (ViCs). Because of the informality of ViCs, migrant renters have very insecure tenancy and during redevelopment they are treated as a negligible ('invisible') social group. As they are very difficult to locate after displacement, they are also literally invisible to researchers. To make the…
What Drives the Spatial Development of Urban Villages in China
China’s dramatic urban expansion has encompassed many peri-urban villages and turned them into so-called urban villages that provide a niche housing market for rural migrants for whom the formal housing market is unaffordable. Yet urban villages are very distinct from informal settlements elsewhere, because they are being developed by the original village community on collectively owned land. As these communities cannot sell their land and only b…
Healthy urban living: Residential environment and health of older adults in Shanghai
Residential segregation and well-being inequality between local and migrant elderly in Shanghai
The intra-urban distribution of skilled migrants: Case studies of Shanghai and Nanjing
The subjective well-being of older adults in Shanghai: The role of residential environment and individual resources
As a rapidly ageing population becomes an increasingly serious social challenge for Chinese megacities, issues affecting older adults’ subjective well-being (SWB) attract greater concern. However, it is difficult to gain a comprehensive understanding of older adults’ SWB, since most SWB theories focus only on specific factors. Moreover, residential environmental factors are hardly considered in studies of older adults’ SWB. In this paper we there…
The mediating effects of parental and peer pressure on the migration intentions of university graduates in Nanjing
Residential segregation and well-being inequality over time: A study on the local and migrant elderly people in Shanghai
Smart urban governance: An alternative to technocratic “smartness”
This paper argues for a specific urban planning perspective on smart governance that we call "smart urban governance," which represents a move away from the technocratic way of governing cities often found in smart cities. A framework on smart urban governance is proposed on the basis of three intertwined key components, namely spatial, institutional, and technological components. To test the applicability of the framework, we conducted an intern…
Roles and Motivations of Planning Professionals Who Promote Public Participation in Urban Planning Practice: Two Case Studies from Beijing, China
Public participation in urban planning is a contested issue in China. In this article, we look at the endogenous mechanism of institutional change, by analyzing the roles and motivations of “third-party” planning professionals in two contrasting cases: a government-led and a citizen-led participatory practice. Findings show that planners were advocates of citizen participation in heritage preservation in both cases and acted as “mediators” in the…
Strategies of the built-heritage stewardship movement in urban redevelopment in the Internet Age: The case of the Bell-Drum Towers controversy in Beijing, China
Smart urban governance: An urgent symbiosis
Over the past decade, two dominant perspectives prevail on the governance of smart cities. From a public administration perspective, ‘smart governance’ emphasizes the importance of technology-based tools in transforming government institutions. From an urban planning perspective, the governance of smart cities focuses on the institution interaction with spatial challenges. Within this backdrop, these perspectives can learn from each other to arri…
Amenity value in post-industrial Chinese cities: The case of Nanjing
Many Chinese cities are in a transition from industrial to post-industrial urban economies. In this process of urban restructuring, land use becomes polycentric and fragmented. More sophisticated models are needed to estimate the amenity effects of this complex residential environment. This article assesses the relative housing price effects of neighborhood characteristics and accessibility in Nanjing, China. This is achieved with a hedonic price…
New Technologies Stuck in Old Hierarchies: The Diffusion of Geo‐Information Technologies in Dutch Public Organizations
Some 25 years after the introduction of the first geo‐information technologies in public organizations, strategies to manage their diffusion are still inadequate. This is problematic in light of the new generation of geo‐information technologies that has become available and aims to invest in these new information technologies in order to advance e‐government. This study questions how strategies for diffusion of geo‐information technologies in pu…
GIS and models of accessibility potential: An application in planning
This paper focuses on the integration of models, especially potential models, in a geographical information system (GIS). This exercise was prompted by the inability of common geographical information systems to deal adequately with the problem of accessibility. Attention is devoted to the technical aspects of integration as well as to the use of GTS—based potential modelling in Dutch physical planning practice.
Bottlenecks Blocking Widespread Usage of Planning Support Systems
Research on planning support systems (PSS) is characterized by a strong emphasis on the supply side, whereas little research has been undertaken on the successes and failures in the adoption of PSS within the planning community (demand side). What becomes clear from the existing research is that usage is not widespread. In this paper we aim to find the main bottlenecks blocking the widespread use of PSS in spatial planning. To achieve this, a glo…
New Technologies Stuck in Old Hierarchies: The Diffusion of Geo‐Information Technologies in Dutch Public Organizations
Some 25 years after the introduction of the first geo‐information technologies in public organizations, strategies to manage their diffusion are still inadequate. This is problematic in light of the new generation of geo‐information technologies that has become available and aims to invest in these new information technologies in order to advance e‐government. This study questions how strategies for diffusion of geo‐information technologies in pu…
Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World
Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World
The development and redevelopment of urban villages in Shenzhen
The Land-Use Diversity in Urban Villages in Shenzhen
China's dynamic urbanisation since 1978 has led to the proliferation of so-called 'urban villages' in many cities. Their development, via a self-help approach by indigenous villagers, delivers low-cost housing and various other social and economic activities. Consequently, urban villages are characterised by growing numbers of buildings and a mix of functions, including residential, industrial, commercial, and public services. These uses enable d…
Planning Support Systems for Sustainable Urban Development
What Drives the Spatial Development of Urban Villages in China
China’s dramatic urban expansion has encompassed many peri-urban villages and turned them into so-called urban villages that provide a niche housing market for rural migrants for whom the formal housing market is unaffordable. Yet urban villages are very distinct from informal settlements elsewhere, because they are being developed by the original village community on collectively owned land. As these communities cannot sell their land and only b…
Changing Spatial Concentration of Sectoral Employment in China's Pearl River Delta 1990–2005
Using county‐level employment data, we analyse how the spatial concentration of jobs has changed in China's Pearl River Delta (PRD) between 1990 and 2005. Despite unique Chinese policies that exhibit strong influence on the economic landscape, we detect key parallels with the patterns found in classic theories and empirical studies in Western contexts. Total employment has become increasingly concentrated. This aggregate picture hides important s…
Spatial Analyses of the Urban Village Development Process in Shenzhen, China
Urban villages are widespread in many Chinese cities, providing affordable and accessible housing for rural migrants. These urban villages develop rapidly over time to create more housing units and accommodate increasing numbers of residents. This article provides systematic analyses of urban village development in Shenzhen in the period 1999-2009. It reveals that the development of urban villages was driven by the overall planning and urban grow…
Amenity value in post-industrial Chinese cities: The case of Nanjing
Many Chinese cities are in a transition from industrial to post-industrial urban economies. In this process of urban restructuring, land use becomes polycentric and fragmented. More sophisticated models are needed to estimate the amenity effects of this complex residential environment. This article assesses the relative housing price effects of neighborhood characteristics and accessibility in Nanjing, China. This is achieved with a hedonic price…
Residential segregation and well-being inequality between local and migrant elderly in Shanghai
The intra-urban distribution of skilled migrants: Case studies of Shanghai and Nanjing
Institutional determinants of brownfield formation in Chinese cities and urban villages
Science Parks and the Co-location of High-tech Small- and Medium-sized Firms in China’s Shenzhen
Science parks (SPs) have received special attention as a policy tool to facilitate localised economic growth by attracting high-tech firms, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The effectiveness of this strategy has been called into question. Empirical studies suggest that the benefits of SPs for high-tech firms are limited. While this debate is mainly concentrated in the US and Europe, this paper sheds light on the role of SPs …
The willingness to pay for green apartments: The case of Nanjing, China
Faced with the challenge of developing sustainable cities, the Chinese government sets green construction as part of the national strategy to reduce energy consumption. However, the consumer market has shown limited response to such policies. To upscale green building, it is crucial to understand the market demands for green apartments. This article employs a conjoint model to estimate the willingness to pay for green dwellings versus accessibili…
Residential Distribution of the Emergent Class of Skilled Migrants in Nanjing
Migration in China is traditionally dominated by unskilled rural-urban migrants that find their way into the city through urban villages, dormitories or informal housing. However, a remarkable increase in the number of skilled migrants has been witnessed with the economic restructuring. Reforms in the labour and housing market have shifted the spatial arrangement of opportunities, consequently changing migrants' access to the cities. Using 2000 P…
Residential segregation and well-being inequality over time: A study on the local and migrant elderly people in Shanghai
A conceptual framework on modes of governance for the regeneration of Chinese ‘villages in the city’
China’s rapid urbanisation has created a special form of urban built environment known as ‘village in the city’ (ViC). Various governance approaches have been applied to redevelop ViCs, which are prevalent in big cities. However, owing to the specific conditions of ViCs and the diverse contexts of urban development within and across cities, those approaches remain largely case-specific and are hampered by a lack of guiding principles. This articl…
Residential Mobility of Skilled Migrants in Nanjing, China
Economic restructuring and the dramatic expansion of higher education have generated large migration flows of skilled employees to Chinese cities. The residential mobility of skilled migrants has a large impact on the operation of housing and labour markets and the (re)production of social inequities. In this paper we examine the effects of life-course trajectories and institutional factors on the residential mobility of skilled migrants, in comp…
Personal values that drive the choice for green apartments in Nanjing China: The limited role of environmental values
How smart is smart? Theoretical and empirical considerations on implementing smart city objectives – a case study of Dutch railway station areas
The current widespread attention on the concept of smart city in both policy and practice has stimulated academic discussion regarding the scope and applicability of this concept. An important question is whether cities and regions are truly advanced in implementing the concept in their policies and practices relative to its conceptual elaborations in academia. The aim of this paper is to analyse this congruence between theory and practice in the…
Access to homeownership in urban China: A comparison between skilled migrants and skilled locals in Nanjing
The mediating effects of parental and peer pressure on the migration intentions of university graduates in Nanjing
Geography (42 works) · Business (30 works) · Economics (29 works) · Political science (29 works) · China (25 works) · Engineering (23 works) · Computer Science (22 works) · Environmental planning (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Economic growth (17 works)