In my work with PlaceMatters and APA’s Technology Division, I am constantly looking for more effective tools and techniques to engage citizens in land use planning and community building. The continual emergence of innovative GIS and online tools has made the search exciting and rewarding.
This evening my wife, Beth Conover, will appear on a televised panel discussion on "Immigration and Sustainability" aired on Rocky Mountain PBS's Colorado State of Mind, hosted by Greg Dobbs. The panel includes former Gov. Dick Lamm, former Post columnist Diane Carman, and State Rep. Michael Garcia (D-Aurora).
Are you a LAMP stack developer who is also interested or has a background in urban planning? Urban Insight is seeking an experienced developer to help them plan, design and develop new features for Planetizen. Experience with Drupal is a big plus.
Cosmic Voyage IMAX has an excellent simulation/demonstration of the power of exponential numbers. Morgan Freedman's narration starts with a 1 meter circle, a hoola hoop, and then keeps expanding 10 times the previous size. 13 steps later we pass our solar system. 23 steps out and we are at the outer limits of space. Then, WHAM! the viewer gets to travel warp speed back to Earth, to the Netherlands, a river bed, and a drop of water. And now it’s magnification times 10 -- from single cell organisms, to their DNA, to individual atoms comprised of protons and quarks...
For the last couple of years I have been tracking decision support tools that bring audio into the planning process. At our PLACEMATTERS06 conference, Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc.
4 tools that support community building at the street level.
Just heard from my co-worker, Chris Haller, who is at Where 2.0 that Google has announced yet another cool tool for visualization. Street View provides panoramic views embedded as an additional view to g-maps. Initially this tool is only available in 5 cities: Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco.
