"VR applications offer users interactive and immersive 3D renderings of environments, capable of mimicking real-world locations or proposed environments result in higher perception of location, size and topography, higher cognition level of characteristics and lastly increased sense of spatial enclosure. "
- Koramaz and Gulersoy, 2009
"modeling the built environment and being able to interact within it over the Web represents a paradigm shift for the planning and design process that may fundamentally change the way in which planners communicate ideas and developments to the public."
- Al-Kodmany, 2002
"The process of involving the public makes the results more relevant to the population’s needs. In fact, participation provides local knowledge and thus makes the planner decisions more appropriate to local specificities"
- Amado et al., 2009 & Brabham, 2009
"the methods that we consider significant and that we believe will be the most important in the next century are these interactive collaborative methods of discourse allowing multi-way communication around tasks and issues, involving the public directly with planners and decision makers, and allowing real learning and change to take place on all sides."
- Innes and Booner, 2000
