Tag Archives: geodesign

PlaceMatters gets some great press!

By Jason Lally | Published: October 14, 2011

This fall, PlaceMatters is in three publications!  We were part of the Metropolis Technology Issue on page 71 (online link to the article will be available next month).  You can read a brief on community outreach technologies including our own Brainstorm Anywhere.  A more in-depth article on High-Touch/High-Tech Charrettes is in this month’s Planning magazine [...]

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Esri calls for GeoDesign case studies

By Jason Lally | Published: August 24, 2011

I recently received a request to post a call for case studies from a colleague at Esri, Shannon McElvaney.  The announcement is quoted below.  You can see some an example of our work in Cape Cod written up by Ken here, or watch an interview with Matt Baker on GeoDesign, or take a look at [...]

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A Pattern Language for the Public: Esri Acquires Procedural

By Jason Lally | Published: July 20, 2011

In 1977, Christopher Alexander co-authored the book A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings and Construction.  Alexander and his co-authors lay out a series of generative patterns that form a language of solutions and problems in the built environment.  While one can argue about the patterns themselves, the thinking behind this book is what interests me the [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: March 30, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: March 30, 2011

I had a week off because of a few conferences in Washington, D.C. (including the terrific Nonprofit Technology Conference) and then an unplanned week away from the office as a raging wildfire threatened my town (we learned some great lessons about communication, community, and social media – I’ll blog about that separately), but I’m back [...]

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Matthew Baker of ESRI talks GeoDesign

By Jason Lally | Published: March 21, 2011

While at New Partners for Smart Growth, I had Matthew Baker of ESRI show me a couple of neat tricks for sketch based feedback in ArcGIS.  Using a series of free add-ins and some customizations [link forthcoming], he is able to get some nice feedback directly inside ArcGIS.  He does this using a Wacom DTU [...]

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Jack Dangermond – Thoughts on GeoDesign

By Jason Lally | Published: January 19, 2011

I interviewed Jack Dangermond while at the GeoDesign Summit in Redlands, CA.  I was able to get about 4 minutes of his very busy schedule to ask him what he thought of the potential of GeoDesign coming out of this summit.  In the interview, he talks about the need for collaboration and Carl Steinitz’s four [...]

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Reflections on the GeoDesign Summit

By Jason Lally | Published: January 13, 2011

Recently I returned from the GeoDesign summit in Redlands, CA and met a lot of interesting people doing a lot of different work from varied disciplines.  While there, a question came up during lunch with one of my colleagues.  It was regarding whether this whole “GeoDesign” thing would just end up being a fad (this [...]

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Sketching a Transit Oriented Development in 3D

By Jason Lally | Published: October 27, 2010

Our friends at ESRI alerted us to this great demo of doing a TOD analysis in 3D using ArcGIS Desktop 10.  This tracks well with a lightning talk I gave last year at the GeoDesign Summit on High Fidelity Participatory Design.  We are getting closer and closer to a point where we can very quickly [...]

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GeoDesign and Planning

By Jason Lally | Published: September 2, 2010

This past January, I had the pleasure of attending the first GeoDesign summit.  I am currently working with the steering committee for next year’s GeoDesign summit and thought it would be appropriate to give a little overview of what GeoDesign is and why it is important.  GeoDesign is something that people have been doing for [...]

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