The following firms and individuals are at the creative forefront of devising new ways of planning for urban growth.
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"The difficulty with planning the physical environment is that the feedback loops are too long."
Dover,
Kohl & Partners: Community
Process, Visualization
Using an electronically supported, interactive "charrette" process
to promote citizen participation.
Anton
Nelessen/Nelessen Associates:
Community
Process,
Visualization
Using computer-imaging techniques to improve the
objectivity of Visual Preference Surveys(TM).
Richard
Heapes/Street-Works:
Visualization
Using photographs touched up with painting
software to depict street
level views of urban revitalization.
Steve
Price/Urban Advantage: Visualization
Using photomontages to envision urban and suburban revitalization.
Ron
Morgan/Urban Ventures: Community
Process, Visualization
Altering aerial and street level photographs to present
urban designs.
Michael
Kwartler/Environmental Simulation Center:
Community Process, GIS
Modeling, Impact Analysis,
Visualization
Combining 3-D modeling with GIS, so communities can experiment
with urban designs and see quantified environmental and fiscal impacts.
Carl
Steinitz/Harvard
University:
GIS
Modeling,
Impact Analysis
Using GIS to deepen knowledge of natural landscapes and show preferred
development locations.
Criterion
Planners/Engineers Inc.: GIS Modeling,
Impact Analysis
Using
GIS mapping to track indicators of pedestrian amenity and sustainability.
John
Landis/University of California Berkeley: GIS
Modeling,
Impact Analysis
Using GIS modeling to predict regional change.
Wil
Orr/Prescott College: GIS
Modeling,
Impact Analysis
Assessing impacts of different development policies on
the city and its "ecological footprint."
Thomas
Horan/Claremont Graduate University:
Community Process, GIS Modeling
Using GIS to map citizens' preferences of their neighborhoods.
Joe
VanderMeulen/Land Information Access Association:
Community Process, GIS Modeling, Information Resources
Using Community Information Systems to improve citizens' access to information
at the local level.
Jim
Constantine/Looney Ricks Kiss:
Community
Process, Visualization
Using Community Vision Surveys to determine what
citizens want and whether they are willing to invest public money to achieve
it.
Ginny
Graves/Box City: Community
Process, Visualization
Developing a community vision using affordable and
available tools and materials.
Planning with community resource efficiency as an indicator of community livability.
Museums
and Design Centers: Community
Process, GIS
Modeling, Impact Analysis,
Infornation
Resources, Visualization
Providing centrally located places where the community can learn about
and engage in urban design.
Regulating
Plans and Typological Codes:
Land
Development Regulation
Regulating land development to achieve community
desires.
Duany
and Plater-Zyberk/Lexicon of the New Urbanism:
Urban
Design Standards
Developing a professional vocabulary and set of
standards for town making.
Claritas/Geodemography:
Information
Resources
Understanding the diversity of housing markets.
Fregonese
Calthorpe: Community
Process, GIS Modeling, Impact
Analysis, Visualization
Distributing regional planning information in ways to engage the broadest
audience.
Site development and design by Urban Advantage
