Essential Methods for Planning Practitioners : Skills and Techniques for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Communication.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Planning as Storytelling -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Scope and Purpose -- 1.3 What Do Planners Do? -- 1.4 Future-Oriented Problem Solving: The Climate Change Imbroglio -- 1.5 Why This Book, Why Now? -- 1.6 Overview of Upcoming Chapters -- 1.6.1 Chapter 2: Planning Challenges and the Challenges of Planning -- 1.6.2 Chapter 3: Case Studies -- 1.6.3 Chapter 4: Planning Grand -- 1.6.4 Chapter 5: Placemaking: Why Everything Is Local -- 1.6.5 Chapter 6: Civic Engagement -- 1.6.6 Chapter 7: Implementation and Sustainability -- 1.6.7 Chapter 8: Epilogue -- References -- Chapter 2: Planning Challenges and the Challenges of Planning -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Making the Simple Complex -- 2.1.2 Data, Historical Trends, and Best Practices -- 2.2 Planning Through the Ages -- 2.2.1 Twentieth-Century Settlement Patterns in the United States -- 2.2.2 Changing Morphologies, Urban Sprawl, and New Urbanism -- 2.3 Planning Challenges -- 2.3.1 Urbanization -- 2.3.2 Demography -- 2.3.3 Climate -- 2.4 Impacts and Consequences -- 2.4.1 Combat and Manage Sprawl -- 2.4.2 Create and Maintain Infrastructure and Transportation Systems -- 2.4.3 Plan for an Aging Society -- 2.4.4 Serve Diverse Populations -- 2.4.5 Address Environmental Quality -- 2.4.6 Design for Climate Resilience -- 2.5 Challenges of Planning -- 2.5.1 The Death of Expertise -- 2.5.2 Planning with Diverse Populations -- 2.5.3 The Future of Participation -- 2.6 Technologies and Planning Practices -- 2.6.1 Planning as a Science -- 2.6.2 Planning Support Systems -- 2.6.3 Participatory Planning Technologies -- 2.6.4 Big Data, Social Media, and Planning Apps -- 2.7 Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 3: Case Studies -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Hunts Point -- 3.2.1 History -- 3.2.2 Demographics.

3.2.3 Community Burdens -- 3.2.4 Community Resources -- 3.2.5 Planning Challenges -- 3.2.5.1 Nuisance Land Uses -- 3.2.5.2 Truck Traffic -- 3.2.5.3 Declining Residential Quality -- 3.2.5.4 Environmental Sustainability -- 3.2.5.5 Design for Climate Resilience -- 3.2.6 Planning Opportunities -- 3.2.6.1 Field Observations and Community Conversations -- 3.2.6.2 Improving Accessibility -- 3.3 Roosevelt Island -- 3.3.1 History -- 3.3.2 Demographics -- 3.3.3 Community Burdens -- 3.3.4 Community Resources -- 3.3.5 Planning Challenges -- 3.3.6 Planning Opportunities -- 3.3.6.1 Transportation Improvements -- 3.3.6.2 Cornell Campus -- 3.4 Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 4: Planning Grand -- 4.1 Projecting into the Future -- 4.2 Delphi -- 4.3 Futures Wheel -- 4.4 Scenario Planning -- 4.5 Forecasting -- 4.6 Simulations and Gaming -- 4.7 Dealing with Bias -- References -- Chapter 5: Placemaking: Why Everything Is Local -- 5.1 Understanding Demographic Profiles -- 5.2 Crowdsourcing -- 5.3 Sensor Networks -- 5.4 Understanding What People Do by Observing Their Actions and Behaviors -- 5.4.1 Behavior Maps -- 5.4.2 Sensors/Trackers -- 5.4.3 Participant Observation -- 5.4.4 Ethnographic Research -- 5.5 Understanding People by Asking Them -- 5.5.1 Perceptual Mapping -- 5.5.2 Key Informant Interviews -- 5.5.3 Annotated Online Maps -- 5.5.4 Surveys -- 5.6 Understanding Local Environmental Conditions -- 5.7 GIS -- 5.7.1 Determining Data Needs -- 5.7.2 Organizing Spatial Data -- 5.8 Spatial Analysis -- 5.8.1 Vector GIS -- 5.8.2 Network GIS -- 5.8.3 Raster GIS -- 5.8.4 Visualization Versus Analysis -- 5.9 Geodesign -- 5.9.1 3D -- 5.9.2 Visualization -- 5.9.3 Simulation -- 5.9.4 Participation -- 5.9.5 Geography -- 5.9.6 Sustainability -- 5.9.7 Resources -- 5.10 Planning in a Brave New World: Reflecting on Data Junk and Other Thoughts on Planning.

5.11 Experts Versus Non-experts -- 5.12 Geographic Constraints -- 5.12.1 Reporting Unit Mismatch -- 5.12.2 Coordinate System Mismatch -- 5.12.3 Lying with Maps -- 5.12.4 Limitations of a Data-Driven Approach -- 5.13 Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 6: Civic Engagement -- 6.1 What Is Civic Engagement? -- 6.2 Origins of Modern Civic Engagement -- 6.2.1 Davidoff and the Advocacy Planning Model -- 6.2.2 Arnstein and the Ladder of Citizen Participation -- 6.2.3 Discussion and Critique -- 6.3 Managing Change -- 6.4 A Framework for Twenty-First Century Civic Engagement -- 6.4.1 Understand the Rich Diversity of the Community -- 6.4.2 Promise to Engage the Whole Community and Keep Your Promise -- 6.4.3 Develop Civic Engagement Principles -- 6.4.4 Design an Inclusive Community Outreach Strategy -- 6.5 Closing Comments About Engagement -- 6.6 Social Media -- 6.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: Implementation -- 7.1 Moving from Ideas to Action -- 7.2 Understanding Implementation Cycles -- 7.3 Digital Storytelling -- 7.4 Understanding the Governance Landscape -- 7.5 Understanding Policymaking Frameworks -- 7.6 Agenda Setting and the Role of Social Media -- 7.7 A Brief Comment About Budgets -- 7.8 Ethics -- 7.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Epilogue -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Planning Skills -- 8.2.1 Written Communication Skills -- 8.2.2 Graphical Communication Skills -- 8.2.3 Public Presentation Skills -- 8.2.4 Consensus Building Skills -- 8.2.5 Social Communication Skills -- 8.3 Planning in the Twenty-First Century -- 8.4 Twenty-First-Century Planners -- References -- Index.

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