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take place? For these questions it is clear that visualisation of the future landscape is
ambiguous and it has a dynamic development in time, it changes both on the basis of
objective reasons and also subjective decisions. Is there any point in the modelling
of future scenarios and their presentation in the form of visualisations? The answer
is not easy and definite, but still the reactions and interest from the decision-making
sphere in these matters confirm to us that the answer is yes. Similarly, inquiry among
inhabitants shows that they would like to have knowledge about future development
and the opportunity to influence that development (see Discussion and Conclusions
at the end of this article).
Leading research establishments both in the world and in the Czech Republic
are engaged in monitoring of landscape development and its visualisation. In the
topic
Virtual reality in geography
, Lovett et al. (2002) published a study dealing
with visualisation of a sustainable farming landscape from which it is clear that at
the technical level GIS and VRML (virtual reality markup language) are suitable
tools for landscape visualisation. The development in the information technologies
supports and accelerates the development of the whole area, such as 3D landscape
visualisation, and specifically urban landscape visualisation (Batty, 1996; Spradley
& Welch, 1998).
In the submitted work, the authors deal with the issues mainly from the angle
of possible use of reconstruction geovisualisations for regional planning of urban
settlements and landscape with emphasis placed on three aspects: (a) interrelation
of past and future landscapes, (b) complexity of visual representation as a tool
for optimal and sustainable planning, (c) involvement of inhabitants in the plan-
ning process using the assessment of subjective perception of photo-realistic and
virtual-reality scenarios. In a case study the town of Klášterec nad Ohrí is then
focused on. The selected angle requires a complex approach, i.e. from the building
of a database to the final landscape visualisation and from socio-cultural aspects to
connections of the regional development with the natural environment. It is thus a
complex approach typical for geography, in the particular case including structural,
developmental and methodological complexity (cf. Hampl, 1971, 1998).
At the general level, the technical focus of this chapter is on monitoring of devel-
opment of the urban landscape, its assessment, submission of measures, proposing
of changes and actual visualisation of particular changes in the landscape. Specific
partial targets were quantification of changes of the spatial growth of the model time
in time horizons with regard to relatively stable factors. The quantification results
were also interpreted as regards the long-term continuity of the local landscape
development and with regard to the current strategic plan of town development.
11.2 Case Study: Mid-Size Town with Abrupt Shifts in
Development
11.2.1 Study Area
The town of Klášterec nad Ohrí is a part of a wider model area called Klášterecko.
Klášterec nad Ohrí is situated in the western part of the Ústí nad Labem region and
the area of the town cadastre is approximately 5.500 ha. The town's population is
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