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Mark Monmonier’s book “How to Lie with Maps,” is a perennial favorite within the mapping community, not because it’s a tutorial for deception, but because it brings to light the inherent bias in most mapping efforts. As with most communication mediums, those in power control the message in the map, and can manipulate outcomes. In [...]
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Trading off this week’s highly-charged political theme of a potential federal government shutdown in the United States, it’s worth discussing the implications of a lack of federal mapping. Elimination of federal mapmaking is really out of the question as the federal government needs to map for so many policy and security reasons, yet there has [...]
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Autodesk has rolled out a tool for conceptual design for infrastructure with their Project Galileo software, which builds on their purchase of LandXplorer. The product retains the GIS integration that was in the original product and adds Autodesk’s rich visualization and rendering capabilities. The product provides a whole new level of geospatial visualization capability that [...]
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We’re hearing this morning from James Moore, senior vice president for National Community Planning and Urban Design at HDR, on the “Cities of the Future and the Future of Cities” at the Autodesk AEC Media Day. HDR is a full-service architectural and engineering firm based in Omaha, Nebraska that does work around the world, with [...]
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Paul McRoberts, Autodesk’s vice president of the infrastructure product group, addressed press today at the AEC Media Day. The focus of McRobert’s group has been on the porting of model-based design to bring BIM workflows and concepts to infrastructure. At the center of this approach is the capability to start with as-built and existing conditions, [...]
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The proportion of Asians living in urban areas grew from 32% in 1990 to 42% last year. More than 100,000 people are added to Asian cities each day. At this rate, Asian cities must be ready to accommodate an additional 1.1 billion residents over the next 20 years. In the face of this fast-paced urban [...]
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy recently launched a report titled, “Making Room for Planet of Cities,” that takes a close look at urban land cover and the concentration of the world’s population in cities, supported by Cities Alliance and the World Bank. The projection is that the world’s urban population will double in 43 [...]
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A report was released yesterday from the Asian Development Bank titled, “Migration Due to Climate Change Demands Attention.” In the report, the climate threats and the complex nature of migration were outlined. Such impacts as rainfall variability (droughts and floods), high temperature, more severe monsoons and cyclones, and rising sea levels all pose issues to [...]
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Transportation is a major metropolitan issue, with direct impacts on economic strength, environmental sustainability, and social equity. A combination of recent technological advancements such as social networking, mobile computing, open source software, open data and APIs, and spatial analysis all combine to provide an opportunity to improve mobility and at a lower cost than has [...]
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There’s a new geovisualization design environment for collaborative design for proposed development called Betaville. The open-source platform has been developed by the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center along with the Media 2 Culture program of the Hochschule Bremen, Germany with an eye toward multiplayer participation. The city visualization tools focuses on planning proposals for interactive community [...]
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