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This research investigates determinants implementing computer visualisation in planning and represents an attempt to show the importance of visualisation media of ideas with regard to the implication of planning in the UK. The last decade has witnessed great technological development and its adaptation in planning in the UK. I argue that empirical studies associated with planning and employment of computer visualisation at the local level, and research on the ethics underlying usages as media, have been largely unexplored in the literature due to an inordinate emphasis upon both an technical approach derived from its contents and credibility and theoretical pros and cons representing planning use. Thus, variations of technology implication in planning have largely been neglected and the dynamic relationships between recent technology and formal planning process have less attention than they should. This thesis seeks to remedy the neglect of these topics via case studies of diverse computer visualisation and typical planning applications. Implicating technology, and investigation of how the planning decisions have been made. For the purpose of this study, My research questions will focus on specific aspects of implication of computer visualisation. The questions are: How computer visualisation is implemented in UK planning? What is the current issue that the computer visualisation is faced in the planning implementation? In investigating, determinants of the implementation, this thesis identifies key emerging issues of the implication: planning roles, technology scepticism, level of realism, and production cost. Moreover, the research will centre on several planning scenarios in the UK, employing case study, semi-constructed interviews. This research finds that in the experiments for technology and implementation, easy of production and credibility were the strongest determinant influencing planning implication; whereas, in the semi-constructed interviews reveal that cost and robust visual efficiency wee the strongest factors. This implies that we need more in-depth case study analysis in order to understand more about how computer visualisation has been implemented and perceived by professionals. Following case studies in typical planning applications and diverse of media, computer visualisation has been played important role in planning - in particular photomontages - even though it still remain as supplementary. Credibility, however, has been emerged as an important factor for planning decisions and there are only handful of guidelines have been published. Photomontages and three dimensional visualisations have different types of level of realism: photo-realistic and immersive realism. They serve in different planning purposes and a low level of realism does not mean lack of credibility as long as model represents appropriate 3D geometry standards. Production costs for production computer visualisation vary. It is dependents on level of detail to achieve, skill sets, and resources. However, it cannot be denied that the cost of computer visualisation is getting low and it becomes more accessible because of the recent technology (hardware and software) developments. The thesis concludes with suggestions of more professional training and guidelines without limiting artistic liberty of designers to producing computer visualisation in planning. It is often witnessed the disconnection between academic researches and planning professions in employing and implementing computer visualisation in planning. %26lt;br%26gt;Moreover, ethical stance of planning professions would. play a key role in a discretionary planning system such as in the UK.
