The construction and applications of urban planning and management information system

Sustainability and sustainable development have become the main themes of today's world. Urban planning and the urban spatial form derived from it are the pivotal points to prompt sustainable urban development. As an important approach for geo-spatial data management, GIS obtain widely recognitions and applications. Urban Planning Management Information System (UPMIS) is a multidisciplinary and multi-specialties integrated GIS application-system based on computer network and it uses GIS technology as platform, which can serve as an assistance system for urban planning, administration and decision making. Ningbo Planning Bureau has been researching the GIS technology in the application of planning domain from 1994, and then it developed Ningbo UPMIS based on window and Mapinfo platform. And so far it has built about ten thousand cases' item information. This paper, describes briefly the development and application of GIS technology in the field of urban planning in China, and it analyzes the application demands of GIS technology for planning and management under China urban planning system, Taking the development and use of Ningbo UPMIS as an example, this paper describes particularly the composition of the urban planning spatial database, the net framework for running UPMIS, the dynamic construction of workflow in integrating graphics and text and its application situation in Ningbo UPMIS activities.