Abstract
Abstract. The challenges of how to ensure sustainable urban development are currently one of the important agenda among governments around the world. The stakeholders require the latest and high volume of geographic information for the decision making process to efficiently respond to challenges, improve service delivery to citizens, and plan a successful future of the city. However, it is time-consuming and costly to get the available information and some of the information is not up-to-date. Recently, GeoWeb 2.0 technological advances have increased the number of volunteers from non-professional citizen to contribute to the collection, sharing, and distribution of geographic information. The information known as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has generated another approach of spatial data sources that can give up-to-date, huge volume of data, and available geographic information in a low cost for various applications. With this in mind, this paper presents a review of literature based on the potential use of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in measuring sustainability of urban development. The review highlighted that social, economic, and environment as three pertinent pillars relating to the use of VGI for measurement sustainable urban development.
Highlights
Many developing countries, including Malaysia are entering the stage where the urbanization is increasing rapidly
There are many benefits of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) based on previous researches that has been briefly described in section 5 in this paper which indirectly can be used for sustainable urban development application
Citizens, including professional and nonprofessional peoples have started to realize the benefit of VGI
Summary
Many developing countries, including Malaysia are entering the stage where the urbanization is increasing rapidly. An increasing of population and rapid growth of economic and social activities in urban areas causes resources usage increase, pollution, destroy the environment, and social problems (Grim et al 2008; Xing et al 2009). These challenges have led to the concept of sustainable development in urban planning. Issues in sustainable urban development include how to monitor growth and change across the city and to forecast areas of risk. The assessment of the literature on the use of VGI for sustainable urban development based on three pillars; social, economic, and environment is discussed. Conclusions are drawn on the potential use of VGI in measuring sustainability of urban development
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