Developing the application framework of the China Spatial Planning Observation Network (CSPON)

Establishing the China Spatial Planning Observation Network (CSPON) is not only the essential to ensure the operation of the territorial spatial planning system but also the key support for the digital transformation of spatial governance. It is the current requirement from spatial planning system establishment, urban development mode transformation and spatial governance upgrade that the working logic of planning should transform from the origin blueprint design mode to governance mode. Towards the challenge for territorial planning system in the aspects of operation systems, reaction mode and system response, this study proposes that the CSPON should transform the logic of planning practice from feed-forward to rear-feed control and from information production to information use. In the logic of activity perception, planning backtracking and system feedback, emphasis should be put on the relation between planning and spatial activities, planning and systems, to establish three application scenarios including the overall real-time observation on territorial spatial activities, the self-adjustment of the territorial spatial planning and systematic responses in the joint effort of territorial spatial planning and the governing bodies, which could make up the whole loop of digital spatial governance together with blueprint design logic consisting of system recognition, planning establishment and status evaluation.