The Planners Guide to CommunityViz

The Essential Tool for a New Generation of Planning

Doug Walker

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351178044
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Arquitectura
• Categoria: Planificación urbana y paisajismo

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.

Index

accessibility, in regional planning, 121

accessory analysis, for changing scale, 124

accessory elements. See also specific

in base models, 43

caution in using, 52

choosing, 54

data sources, 42

defined, 54

in design review, 191

example, 48

in form-based code analysis, 191

material forms vs., 50

metro and regional models, 45

in 3-D scenes, 50, 187

accessory land uses, 169

Accomack County (Va.), watershed plan in, 160–161

active materials, 39, 52

aerial imagery, 12, 41, 52–53, 240. See also photos; satellite imagery

age, data sources on, 238

agendas, for public meetings, 200, 201

Alberta (Canada), land conservation

planning in, 214–215

alerts

for anticipating problems, 223

creating, 246, 247

in natural resource planning, 152, 157

in site selection and assessment, 138, 142

in visioning process, 65

Allegheny County (Pa.), comprehensive

plan for, 95–97

Allocator tool

capabilities of, 245

case study, 99

for comprehensive plans, 110

as data source, 83

other tools vs., 76, 82

overview, 81

in regional growth projections, 129, 131–132

teaching example, 85–86

in transportation planning, 120

in zoning analysis, 175

alpha channel, 38

alternative solutions, 2–3

American Rivers, 55

analysis. See also specific types

cross-correlation, 208

defined, xxiv, 21, 28

design, 21–26, 202, 203–204 (see also setup)

stakeholders and complexity of, 20–21

study area size vs. scale of, 20–21

SWOT, 2, 64–65

in visioning process, 69–70

analysis diagrams, 203, 216, 248

analysis grids, 125–126, 140–141, 151.

See also fishnet pattern; raster data

analysis layers, 41, 78, 81. See also layers

analysis process, 28

Analysis tab, 210

analysis templates, 123

aquifers, demand analysis for, 151–152.

See also wate...