The Planners Guide to CommunityViz: The Essential Tool for a New Generation of Planning (Orton Family Foundation Books) - Softcover

Walker, Doug

 
9781932364934: The Planners Guide to CommunityViz: The Essential Tool for a New Generation of Planning (Orton Family Foundation Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1932364935 ISBN 13: 9781932364934
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

What does the future look like? Planners wrestle with this question daily as they strive to bring a community's vision of itself to life, in all its complexity. Here is an authoritative and accessible guide to a tool that combines 3-D visualization, data analysis and scenario building to let planners and citizens see the future impacts of a plan or development. The Planners Guide to CommunityViz is the first book to explain how to support planning projects with CommunityViz, GIS-based software that planners around the world are using to help decision-makers, professionals, and the public visualize, analyze, and communicate about development proposals, future growth patterns, and the outcome of particular plans or developments. It shows the planner which tools and techniques to use and how to use them for maximum effectiveness on planning projects large and small. Full of practical examples and case studies, the book shows how CommunityViz can enliven the comprehensive planning process from visioning, to public participation, to values mapping, to build-out analysis. Chapters show how to use CommunityViz to analyze zoning regulations, calculate the costs of community services, and evaluate development proposals requiring design review. In addition, it is applicable to transportation planning, natural-resource planning, land-development suitability assessment, and urban economic development analysis.

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About the Author

Doug Walker is president and principal of Placeways in Boulder, Colorado.

Tom Daniels is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1932364935
ISBN 13 
9781932364934
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304

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