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Welcome to the Toolkit for Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis (TOSCA) Palestine wiki!
The Toolkit for Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis (TOSCA) has been developed since 2019 in cooperation between the Digital City Science of the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). It is an open source tool and the software for this project is based entirely on open source components. TOSCA is a web-based geographic information system (GIS) for multi-touch tables that is optimised for the use by non-GIS-experts. It supports integrated and participatory urban planning processes, fostering dialogue between governments and citizens and exchange of knowledge and data between government departments. The main objective of TOSCA is to visualise complex urban data, for joint analysis among local practitioners and citizens. For the TOSCA Palestine Use Case, the tool has been developed with a focus on enhancing a more direct citizen´s participation in the evaluation of housing development outside the boundaries of urban master plans.
In this sense, the user manual is designed for the local authorities to guide citizens in the participatory process through the usage of the tool. It gives an overview of: the base settings needed before running the tool, a description of the available public user features, such as 1) visualizing and understanding the location of current housing projects available in the area and open for their objection period, 2) submitting a comment or objection on an evaluated project through an online form. Also, the user manual offers a brief guideline into conducting the usage of TOSCA by citizens with the support of local authorities.
The second documentation is the adminstrator's guide. It is targeted at the technical administrators of local TOSCA installations. It provides a high-level overview of the system’s design and guides administrators in the setup of the tool, including hardware and software installation, data preparation, transfer of output data and maintenance.