Staff Computer-based Methods in Urban and Regional Planning

Professor

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alenka Poplin, MBA

HCU Hamburg
Computer-based Methods in Urban and Regional Planning

Überseeallee 16
D-20457 Hamburg

5th Floor | Room 2.024
Phone: +49(0)40/42827-4520
Fax: +49(0)40/42827-5096
Email: alenka.poplin@hcu-hamburg.de

Research

Research Topics

Web-based GIS for community involvment
Public Participation GIS
Geovisualization: design and usability of online, interactive maps
WebGIS and open source technologies
Digital spatial serious games for civic engagement
Social media, Volunteered Geographic Information
Value and transaction costs of geoinformation

Research Projects

GeoGames lab
Nexthamburg
SWITCH: Managing Water for the City of Tomorrow
Pedestrian Navigation (PedNavi)
KLIMZUG-NORD

mehr...

GeoGames lab

GeoGames can change the way you participate in urban planning!

GeoGames are participatory games for urban planning that complement and optimize the conventional process of public participation. They offer the advantage to address important development issues in a playful way. Making the process of participation enjoyable in form of a game is an innovative way to incite residents and other interested citizens to take an active role in the plan making process. With GeoGames, you receive a tool to show and discuss your ideas in a creative way.

GeoGames offer the following advantages:

They can engage, animate and attract citizens with their playful and fun concepts
They are designed to attract many citizens in urban planning processes
They revolutionize the design of public participatory processes in urban planning
They can be offered online, anytime, anyplace and are easily accessible for everybody with an internet access
They are intuitive, easy to be played by all age groups and can be developed in different languages.

“playful and creative – inclusive – informative”

Our new game ParticiPécs
ParticiPécs aims to teach children about sustainable urban planning and participation in urban planning. It is a cooperative game and was developed in a serious of workshops together with children. Our first tests of this game were conducted in the city of Pécs, in Hungary. We feel excited about our new game! More to come!

See us on www.geogameslab.de and Like us on facebook!

Teaching

Sommer Semester 2014

Praxis der Bauleitplanung (Bachelor)
Computergestütztes Planen und Entwerfen II (Bachelor)

Winter Semester 2013/2014

Experimentelle Forschungsmethoden (Bachelor)
Computergestütztes Planen und Entwerfen I (Bachelor)

Publications

Recent Publications

Publications in chronological order.

2014
Tóth, E. and Poplin, A. 2014. <link typo3 fileadmin documents participecs_agile2014_submitted.pdf partici pecs agile2014>ParticiPécs - a cooperative game fostering learning about the built environment and urban planning, 17^th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2014), Workshop Geogames and Geoplay, Castellón, Spain.

Vemuri, K., Poplin, A. and Monachesi, P. 2014. <link typo3 fileadmin documents youplaceit__agile_2014_submited.pdf you place it agile>YouPlaceIt!: a Serious Digital Game for Achieving Consensus in Urban Planning, 17^th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2014), Workshop Geogames and Geoplay, Castellón, Spain.

Reinart, B. and Poplin, A. 2014. <link typo3 fileadmin documents reinart_poplin_paper_games_in_urban_planning.pdf reinart poplin paper games in urban>Games in urban planning - a comparative study, in the proceedings of Real CORP 2014, International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society (CORP 2014), Vienna, Austria.

2013
Poplin, A. 2013 (in press). A Digital Serious Game for Civic Engagement in Urban Planning: B3 – Design your Marketplace!, Journal: Environment and Planning B.

A. Poplin, Furtado Rocha, M. C. and G. Corso. 2013 (in press). The Participatory Cube – a Framework for Analysis of Online Participation Platforms, book chapter in the CUPUM 2013 book Planning Support Systems for Sustainable Urban Development, Springer Verlag.

Tóth, E. and A. Poplin. 2013. Pop-up Pest: An Educational Game for Active Participation of Children in Urban Planning, in the proceedings of: Real CORP 2013, May 20-23, Rom, Italy.

Poplin, A. and T. Haertling. 2013 (accepted). Rational Ignorance in Civic Engagement: a Study Case from Hamburg, in the proceedings of: Joint AESOP/ACSP Congress, Dublin, July 15 - 19.

Haertling, T. and A. Poplin. 2013 (accepted). 3D Visualization of Skyscrapers: a Study of Citizen’s Responses in Hamburg, in the proceedings of: Joint AESOP/ACSP Congress, Dublin, July 15 - 19.

2012
Poplin, A. 2012 (in press). Web-based PPGIS for Wilhelmsburg, Germany: an Integration of Interactive GIS-based Maps with an Online Questionnaire, Special Issue of the Journal of Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), Vol. 25, No. 2, 71-84.

Poplin, A. 2012. Playful public participation in urban planning: A case study for online serious games, Journal: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Elsevier, Volume 36, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 195-206. Online: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971511001116.

Corso, G., Furtado Rocha, M. C. and A. Poplin. 2012. e-Participation: The Role of Social Media for a New Public Space, The International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Session: Cities, Technologies and Planning, June 18-21, Salvador, Brazil.

Kulus, D., Poplin, A. and R. Patwardhan. 2012. Aufbau einer partizipativen Planungscommunity am Beispiel von Nexthamburg, CORP 2012: Re-mixing the City, Towards Sustainability and Resilience?, May 14-16, Schwechat, Austria.

2011
Poplin, A. 2011. Comparative Study of Different Methodologies Used for Quantifying Transaction Costs, in the proceedings of the 17^th European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography (ECQTG 2011), September 2^nd-5^th, Athens, Greece.

Poplin, A. 2011. Games and Serious Games in Urban Planning: Study Cases, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer LNCS, ICCSA 2011 proceedings, presented at: Cities, Technologies and Planning 2011 (CTP 2011), June 20^th-23^rd, Santander, Spain.

Fessele, M. and A. Poplin. 2011. Quality of information collected with the help of online map-based questionnaires, in the proceedings of REAL CORP 2011, 16^th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society GeoMultimedia 2011, 18-20 May 2011, Essen, Germany.

2010
Poplin, A. 2010. Methodology for Measuring the Demand Geoinformation Transaction Costs: Based on Experiments in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich, The Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, Vol. 5, 168-193.

Poplin, A. 2010. How Much does Free Geoinformaiton cost?, in the proceedings of the GeoValue 2010 Workshop, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2010, Hamburg, Germany.

van Loenen, B., Crompvoets, J. and A. Poplin. 2010. Assessing geoportals from a user perspective, in the proceedings of the GeoValue 2010 Workshop, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2010, Hamburg, Germany.

Fessele, M. and A. Poplin. 2010. Statistical analysis of routing processes using OpenStreet Map road data of the inner city of Hamburg with different completeness of information about one-way streets, in the proceedings of the GeoValue 2010 Workshop, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2010, Hamburg, Germany.

Weninger, B., Krek Poplin, A. and J. Petrin. 2010. Developing a Typology of Public Participation 2.0 Users: An Example of Nexthamburg.de. In: Schrenk, M., Popovich, V., Engelke, D. and P. Elisei (eds.), REAL CORP 2010 Proceedings, Vienna, 18-20 May 2010.

Poplin, A., Craglia, M. and S. Roche (Eds.). 2010. 2^nd Workshop on Value of Information GeoValue 2010, Sept 30- Oct. 2, 2010, HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

2009
Krek, A., Rumor, M., S. Zlatanova, E. Fendel (Eds.). 2009. Urban Data Management Symposium, Taylor and Francis, London, UK.

Evelpidou, N., Krek, A. and A. Vassilopoulos. 2009. Formalisation of a GIS-Based Methodology for Landscape Change Analysis: Example of Erosion on Naxos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece in the book: Orejas, A., Mattingly, D, and M. Clavel-Lévêque (eds.), From present to past through landscape, Madrid CSIC-COST Press.

Krek, A. 2009. Quantifying Transaction Costs of Geoinformation: Experiments in National Information Structures in Sweden and Germany, in the book of the 27th Urban Data Management Symposium, Taylor & Francis, June 24-26, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Angelaccio, M., Krek, A. and A. D’Ambrogio. 2009. A Model-driven Approach for Designing Adaptive Web GIS Interfaces, in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Fusion and Geographical Information Systems (IF&GIS-09), May 17-20, 2009, St. Petersburg.

Krek, A. 2009. Measuring Transaction Costs in Spatial Data Infrastructures: Examples of Sweden and Germany, GEOWS ´09, The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services, February 1-7, 2009, Cancun, Mexico.

2008
Bender, O., Evelpidou, N., Krek, A. and P. A. Vassilopoulos (Eds.). 2008. Geoinformation Technologies for Geo-Cultural Landscape Analysis: European Perspectives, Taylor and Francis, London, UK.

Krek, A. and N. Evelpidou. 2008. The role of geoinformation technologies in geocultural landscape research, book chapter in: Geoinformation Technologies for Geo-Cultural Landscape Analysis: European Perspectives, Taylor and Francis, London, UK. Editors: Bender, O., Evelpidou, N., Krek, A. and P. A. Vassilopoulos.

Schiewe, J., Krek, A. Peters, I., Sternberg, H. and Traub, K. 2008. Developing and evaluating tools for urban research, in: Digital Earth Summit on Geoinformatics: Tools for Global Change Research, Potsdam, November 12-14, 2008, www.isde-summit-2008.org.

Krek, A. 2008. Games in Urban Planning: The Power of a Playful Public Participation, in: Mobility Nodes as Innovation Hubs. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society / Manfred Schenk, u.a. (Hrsg). - Schwechat-Rannersdorf, 2008, S. 683-69, ISBN: 978-39502139-5-9.

Wagner, A., Kulus, D. and A. Krek. 2008. Online gestützte Beteiligungsangebote in formellen Planungsprozessen am Beispiel des deutschen Bauleitplanverfahrens, in: Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society / Manfred Schenk, u.a. (Hrsg). - Schwechat-Rannersdorf, 2008, S. 349-358, ISBN: 978-39502139-5-9.

Krek, A. and N. Evelpidou. 2008. Geoinformation Technology Used for Analysis of the Landscape Evolution during Historical Times. In proceedings: Historical GIS Conference, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK, 21-22. August 2008.

Krek, A. 2008. Geoinformation Technologies in Landscape Evolution. In proceedings of the 13th Belgium-France-Italy-Romania geomorphological meeting, Landscape Evolution & Geoarcheology, June 18-21, Porto Heli, Greece.

2007
Ruch, C., Stadler H., Skritek, P. and A. Krek. 2007. A real time flood impact mitigation system for urban areas, in the proceedings of the 26th Urban Data Management Symposium (UDMS `07), October 10 - 12, 2007, Stuttgart, Germany; proceedings / Urban Data Management Society.

Krek, A., Manti, F. and M. Mecella. 2007. Dynamic peer-to-peer GIServices supporting mobile emergency management teams, in the proceedings of the 26th Urban Data Management Symposium (UDMS '07), October 10 - 12, 2007, Stuttgart, Germany; proceedings of Urban Data Management Society.

De Leoni, M. De Rosa, F. Marrella, A., Mecella, M. Poggi, A., Krek, A. and F. Manti. 2007. Emergency Management: from User Requirements to a Flexible P2P Architecture, in: ISCRAM 2007 proceedings: Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management , May 13 -16, 2007, Delft, Netherlands, ISCRAM Community, 2007, S. 271-279

Complete List of Publications

Complete List of publications can be downloaded as a .pdf file.

Curriculum Vitae

Alenka Poplin is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany.

Education

Dr. techn. (PhD), Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2002 Dissertation entitled "An Agent-Based Model for Quantifying the Economic Value of Geographic Information", www.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Clemson University, South Caroline, USA, 1997, www.clemson.edu

M.Sc. in Surveying and Spatial Planning, Ljubljana University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Slovenia, 1992, www2.fgg.uni-lj.si

Work Experience

Prior to the current position she has been working at the Institute of Geoinformation at the Technical University Vienna (Austria), an applied research institute in Salzburg (Austria), and at the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Photogrammetry in Ljubljana (Slovenia). She has been involved in several EU research projects including IST project WORKPAD, eduGI.net - International Network of Institutes for Geoinformatics, GeoMarketing Internet Service for small and Medium enterprises using OpenGIS (GISMO), and the Slovenian project Onix-Training Centre partially financed by the World Bank. Between 1993 and 1997 she worked for GISDATA, ESRI distributor, where she was leading the team, gained practical experiences in GIS technical support, project management, and consulting. Working for Surveying Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in the period between 1992 and 1993, she gained her first experiences in GIS.

Professional Services

Alenka Poplin has served as a referee and member of the program committees of CORP, UDMS, Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-based Processing, ISCRAM, International Workshop on Web Portal-based Solutions for Tourism, and others.

Research Assistant

Bärbel Reinart, M.Sc.

HCU Hamburg
Computer-based Methods in Urban and Regional Planning

Überseeallee 16
D-20457 Hamburg

5th Floor | Room 5.025
Phone: +49(0)40/42827-4550
Email: baerbel.reinart(at)hcu-hamburg.de

Research

Public Participation in Urban Planning
Games in Urban Planning

Teaching

Sommer Semester 2014

Computergestütztes Planen und Entwerfen II (Bachelor)

Wintersemester 2013/2014

Computergestütztes Planen und Entwerfen I und II (Bachelor)

Publications

Reinart, B. and Poplin, A. 2014. <link typo3 fileadmin documents reinart_poplin_paper_games_in_urban_planning.pdf reinart poplin paper games in urban>Games in urban planning - a comparative study, in the proceedings of Real CORP 2014, International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society (CORP 2014), Vienna, Austria.

Demenga, Marisa; Hildebrand, Juliane; Reinart, Bärbel; Schulz, Verena (2010): Landwirtschaft als Nutzungskonzept für innerstädtische Freiflächen. In: RaumPlanung 150/151, Juni/August 2010.

Curriculum Vitae

2008-2011 Master of Science Urban Planning, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany,
Masterthesis: "Gewerbehof als Nachnutzung für die New York-Hamburger Gummi Waaren Fabrik - Gewerbe als Alternative für den channel hamburg".

2005-2008 Bachelor of Science Applied Geography, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany,
Bachelorthesis: "Aufwertung öffentlicher Räume in Aachen am Beispiel Bahnhof und Bahnhofsvorplatz".

PhD Candidate

Eszter Tóth, M.A.

HCU Hamburg

Überseeallee 16
20457 Hamburg

eszter.toth(at)hcu-hamburg.de

Research

Research Topics

built environemnt education
children’s participation in urban planning processes
collaborative educational games for active participation

Publications

Tóth, E. and Poplin, A. 2014. <link typo3 fileadmin documents participecs_agile2014_submitted.pdf partici pecs agile2014>ParticiPécs - a cooperative game fostering learning about the built environment and urban planning, 17^th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2014), Workshop Geogames and Geoplay, Castellón, Spain.

Sebestyén Á. – Tóth E. 2013 (in press): Épített környezeti nevelés [Built Environment Education], Arttan Kft. and kultúrAktív Egyesület

Tóth, E. and A. Poplin. 2013. Pop-up Pest: An Educational Game for Active Participation of Children in Urban Planning, in the proceedings of: Real CORP 2013, May 20-23, Rom, Italy.

Sebestyén Á. – Tóth E. 2011. Sepsiszentgyörgy gyerekeknek [Sfantu Gheorghe for Children] Municipality of Sfantu Gheorghe and KultúrAktív Association, Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania.

Sebestyén Á. – Tóth E. 2010. Pécs gyerekeknek [Pécs for Children] Hungarofest Nemzeti Rendezvényszervez? Nonprofit Kft. Budapest, Hungary.

Translations:

Christa Reicher, Silke Edelhoff, Päivi Kataikko, Angela Uttke (Ed.)2013. Gyerek_szemmel. Építészet gyerekekkel és gyerekeknek [Kinder_Sichten. Architektur mit und für Kinder], Kódex Nyomda and kultúrAktív Association

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

2011 -
HafenCity University Hamburg

PhD Programme „Urban Metamorphoses”

Research topic: Children’s participation in urban planning processes through games

2003 – 2011

Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest

Spanish Philology M.A.

2003 – 2009
Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest

Teachers Degree

2002 – 2009
Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest
History of Art M.A.

Working experience:

2006 – 2009
Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
Museum Educator

2009 – 2010
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Curator (as a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation)

2011
LudwigInzert Experimental Space of the Ludwig Museum Budapest

Curator (as a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation)

2011
University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts

Research Assistant:

Chairperson of kultúrAktív, association for built environment education in Budapest and board member of MitOst, association for cultural exchange in Southern- and Eastern Europe, located in Berlin.

Student Assistant