Visioning and Visualization People, Pixels, and Plans
Publisher: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, April 17, 2008.
Book Condition: New
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781558441804
This book helps urban professionals, public sector leaders, and the public navigate two complex, evolving fields: public involvement and digital visualization in planning. It suggests ways to integrate digital visualization tools into public processes to present participants with clear choices and help them make informed planning decisions. Drawing on the authors' experience developing sophisticated public involvement processes and applying 3D GIS-based simulation and visualization tools to planning and design, the book includes more than 100 color illustrations and case studies from four communities: Santa Fe, Houston, Kona (Hawaii), and Baltimore.
Review
“This book is aptly rife with large, color images that help convey the authors’ main idea: visuals are essential to planning with the community. With effective visualization tools, public participants respond more effectively because the information is straightforward and manipulable. Visioning and Visualization is an excellent guide on how such potential can be attained through current technologies.” ― Planetizen Top 10 Books 2009
“We have come a long way since ‘planning by crayon’ and ‘planning by edict.’ This book richly illustrates state-of-the-art planning tools for public involvement, visualization, and simulation that truly are best practices.” -- William L. Allen, III, Director of Strategic Conservation, The Conservation Fund
“Finally, a coherent approach to community visioning that will serve as a valuable tool in building consensus across multiple stakeholders. This book will help neighborhood leaders demystify the complex issues of urban planning and the built environment. It is a practical and adaptable set of methods to formulate and then visualize a set of strategies to inform equitable revitalization and redevelopment.” -- Miguel Garcia, Program Officer, Ford Foundation
“Visioning and Visualization knits together several heretofore separately documented strands on the leading edge of today’s successful planning. Community-based participatory planning is presented as a core method, not just an add-on activity, as the “who” strand. Vision-driven strategic planning is the ‘what’ strand, and the new visualizing tools and technologies provide the ‘how’ strand. Underlying these is a whole-system, world view of the future in a values matrix, framing the ‘why’ strand of planning. The result is a thoughtful, creative, and hopeful vision for our democratic commons supported by an empowering, accessible new technology. In short, this clearly written, beautifully produced book presents a whole tapestry of public planning the way it should be, can be, and sometimes actually is.” -- Ron Thomas, AICP, Former Executive Director, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission
About the Author
Gianni Longo is an architect and founding principal of ACP–Visioning & Planning in New York City. For the past two decades, he has pioneered programs that involve citizens in the planning and decision-making process.
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