Smart Planning

November 3, 2025 | Brooks Patrick | Urban Planning

A Digital Plan of Buildings and People Guides Adelaide’s Future Growth

Wood-framed multi-story apartment buildings under construction at sunset with one building nearly complete and another in framing stage, mountains visible in background.

July 10, 2025 | Patricia Cummens | Infrastructure

Western Governors Map Ways Out of the Housing Crisis with GIS Technology

April 22, 2025 | Christian Carlson | Infrastructure

Geospatial Technology Helps City Planners Protect and Expand Urban Forests

March 18, 2025 | Keith Cooke | Urban Planning

Maps Reveal Hidden Housing Realities in Massachusetts to Address an Affordability Crisis

March 4, 2025 | Keith Cooke | Infrastructure

A Historic Downtown, Favored on Film, Gets a Digital Twin to Promote Revitalization

January 30, 2025 | Keith Cooke | Urban Planning

How a Texas Town Is Building the City of the Future by Going Vertical

November 7, 2024 | Adam Carnow | Infrastructure

Needleseye Park: GIS Helped Forge this Climbing Spot from Discovery to Construction

June 11, 2024 | Adam Carnow | Infrastructure

Arlington, Texas: A Study in Effective Municipal Storytelling

May 14, 2024 | Ryan Perkl | Resilience

"Sponge City": Using Water to Improve Social and Ecological Outcomes

December 12, 2023 | Greg Milner | Infrastructure

What If the Urban Utopia Was Something We Could Actually Build?

Aerial view of aspern Seestadt © Wien3420

September 12, 2023 | Brooks Patrick | Infrastructure

Inside One of Europe's Largest Urban Development Projects—aspern Seestadt

August 1, 2023 | Judy Fung | Infrastructure

Can a Historic Hawaii Community Modernize without Losing What Makes It Unique?

March 30, 2023 | Sydney Rich | Infrastructure

Digital Twin Boosts Growth, Sustainability Planning in Maryland County

September 6, 2022 | Judy Fung | Infrastructure

Bringing a Stalled California City to Life: How 3D Models Move It Forward

August 30, 2022 | Christine Ma | Infrastructure

Fire Destroyed an Oregon Town—3D Tools Helped Carve Out a Measure of Hope

June 2, 2021 | Christine Ma | Infrastructure

3D Gives Planners in Des Moines Clarity to Manage Economic Development, Growth

January 21, 2021 | Brooks Patrick | Infrastructure

Uppsala Creates a Detailed Digital Twin to Enhance Sustainability

June 25, 2019 | Brooks Patrick | Urban Planning

Honolulu Planners Visualize Housing Patterns with an Eye on Affordability

April 23, 2018 | Brooks Patrick | Urban Planning

Meet Boston’s Digital Twin

October 31, 2017 | Helen Thompson | Urban Planning

Solving London’s Housing Crisis

September 8, 2017 | Matt Ball | Urban Planning

Profiling Bill Miller: On Geodesign and Problem Solving

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