Visual Tools for Planners Providing planners with tools for communicating planning ideas
In Partnership with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This site, developed for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy by a team led by Lew Hopkins, Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, grew out of a desire to provide planners with an expanded set of tools for communicating planning ideas. The examples emphasize visual representation of planning information.
The featured application in the library of representations is Envisioning Regional Recovery Futures: Places, Persons, Economies, Ecosystems. This work is based on the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the deliberations about recovery in the Gulf Coast region. The templates are, however, useful in planning practice generally.
The representations are organized into four general topics: 1) physical place, 2) relationships and movements of persons and their relationships to to each other in prior and newly emerging communities, 3) the economy of individual firms and regional and global transformations and disruptions, and 4) terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems including river and coastal hydrology, production landscapes, and global warming.
By clicking on "Display All" in Visual Tools, users will find, for example, a planning timeline to display the many plan activities in a region, a diagram that tracks the movement of businesses in and out of a region, and a presentation of scenarios as part of a scenario planning process for a region.
The tools are indexed by subject and by scope in time and space. they are also indexed in the context of planning processes and tasks.
A print ready handbook summarizes the web-based interaction. Contact us includes a request for suggestions or contributions of additional examples.
To get started, click on Visual Tools at left or take the tutorial
The featured application in the library of representations is Envisioning Regional Recovery Futures: Places, Persons, Economies, Ecosystems. This work is based on the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the deliberations about recovery in the Gulf Coast region. The templates are, however, useful in planning practice generally.
The representations are organized into four general topics: 1) physical place, 2) relationships and movements of persons and their relationships to to each other in prior and newly emerging communities, 3) the economy of individual firms and regional and global transformations and disruptions, and 4) terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems including river and coastal hydrology, production landscapes, and global warming.
By clicking on "Display All" in Visual Tools, users will find, for example, a planning timeline to display the many plan activities in a region, a diagram that tracks the movement of businesses in and out of a region, and a presentation of scenarios as part of a scenario planning process for a region.
The tools are indexed by subject and by scope in time and space. they are also indexed in the context of planning processes and tasks.
A print ready handbook summarizes the web-based interaction. Contact us includes a request for suggestions or contributions of additional examples.
To get started, click on Visual Tools at left or take the tutorial