Trends in Smart Land Management and Smart Spatial Planning in Asia: Case Study of the New Capital City of Indonesia

Land management in Asia faces various spatial challenges, which can be evaluated, monitored and redesigned through smart geospatial technologies. Currently available technologies can indeed make land management and spatial planning smart, but how to do this and under which conditions practices and designs become smart is not obvious. A crucial aspect of ‘smartness’ is the systematic availability and reliance on large volumes of big data for daily, regular and idiosyncratic land management interventions. Yet, land management and spatial planning also comprise of methodological and axiological choices on land laws and regulations, priority setting in land governance, mitigating socio-spatial unintended impacts and fostering public participation and ownership. Consequently, there is a need to understand how technological trends can effectively support and transform land management to a smart land management. This chapter reviews the practical connections between land management and spatial planning and discusses how geospatial data and technologies can contribute to make these fields smart. It takes the new capital of Indonesia, IKN, as case study to discuss how a new city design and development can be smart from the onset.