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The proportion of Asians living in urban areas grew from 32% in 1990 to 42% last year. More than 100,000 people are added to Asian cities each day. At this rate, Asian cities must be ready to accommodate an additional 1.1 billion residents over the next 20 years. In the face of this fast-paced urban [...]
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There’s an interesting feature in today’s USA Today that covers the shift in planning buzzwords. When development was expanding it was all about smart growth and when development pulled back there has been a move to keep the focus on smarts with the concept of intelligent cities. The increased efforts on the urban core rather [...]
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There’s a new geovisualization design environment for collaborative design for proposed development called Betaville. The open-source platform has been developed by the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center along with the Media 2 Culture program of the Hochschule Bremen, Germany with an eye toward multiplayer participation. The city visualization tools focuses on planning proposals for interactive community [...]
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There were many different perspectives on the role of models coupled with interactive approaches at the recent GeoDesign Summit. The context of technology-assisted collaboration was present from many different vendors and practitioners. The role of technology to aid a collaborative decision making process has a relatively short history of field-tested results, with new technology and [...]
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Takeaways from last week’s GeoDesign Summit are mixed as I continue to process what I learned at the event. While on the one hand there have been some amazing advancements in one year’s time from the inaugural event, the barriers to widespread adoption are formidable. I pulled together an event report to summarize some of [...]
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A good portion of the morning opening to the GeoDesign Summit was devoted to new functionality within the ArcGIS toolset, and Esri’s approach to GeoDesign. Multiple scenarios were presented, with a predominant focus on redevelopment for greater livability, with new density, walkability, public transit, and the economic impacts. Scenarios for both Redlands and Philadelphia were [...]
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Jack Dangermond opened the second GeoDesign Summit this morning in Redlands, Calif. at the Esri headquarters. He welcomed and recognized the broad disciplines represented, and the variety of different focuses, and desired outcomes from the event. As is his way, he emphasized the real-time, face-to-face interaction and people connections that can be garnered from the [...]
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CTV has been broadcasting in Toronto for 50 years, so as a way of commemorating that landmark it has pulled together ideas of how the city will evolve in the next 50 years. As part of this coverage it looks at the future of commuting, the evolution of the city skyline, provides visualizations of the [...]
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Research at the University of California, San Diego are working on solar mapping and forecasting using a variety of sensors that inform a Sky Imager mapping system with real-time understanding of the impact of cloud cover on solar power generation. The goal of the research is to allow utility operators a better means to plan [...]
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The idea of the Healing Cities Project comes from a coalition of health professionals and urban planners in Vancouver, BC that are focused on maximizing citizen health and wellness through the urban form. The idea is to create a framework that fully connects human beings’ physical, emotional and spiritual aspects to all dimensions of the [...]
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