{"id":44282,"date":"2018-07-16T19:35:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T02:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&#038;p=44282"},"modified":"2024-04-30T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:02:08","slug":"do-you-want-to-retrofit-your-city","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/do-you-want-to-retrofit-your-city","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want to Retrofit Your City?"},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1561,24962],"tags":[1381,1451,26512,441,701],"arcuser_issues":[21922],"class_list":["post-44282","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-development","category-focus","tag-autonomous-vehicles","tag-citizen-engagement","tag-climate-change","tag-geodesign","tag-smart-communities","arcuser_issues-spring-2018"],"acf":{"short_description":"Government officials must use geodesign approaches to make their cities resilient and sustainable. ","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"pdf","file":178982},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"My colleagues and I have been spending a lot of time exploring what a city of the future will look like.\r\n\r\nThere are so many technologies, infrastructure constraints, and social aspects to consider, to say nothing of pressing issues such as demographic shifts, aging infrastructure, and climate change. The trend for smart communities suggests the need for a digital transformation to allow decisions to be based on an abundance of data and made with greater agility. In smart communities, mobility will be a priority, and people and infrastructure will be constantly connected through the Internet of Things (IoT).\r\n\r\nWhile we contemplate this vision of the future, trends are accelerating at the speed of, well, technology. States, cities, and counties are excited about the promise of new infrastructure funding and a shift in thinking from maintaining existing infrastructure to rethinking infrastructure altogether.\r\n\r\nThis is a challenge for elected officials, executives, midlevel managers, planners, engineers, and nearly every discipline in government. If you are regularly engaged in discussions about adapting your communities for the future, you understand this dilemma. Organizations such as the Regional Transportation Alliance of Southwestern Pennsylvania are demonstrating the need for addressing the future through building livable and sustainable communities. If you are just beginning to think about evolving the urban fabric, consider the following questions that deal only with a future in which autonomous vehicles are the norm.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Will we still need disabled parking spots or will a car simply drop you off at the front door?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Will we need all those parking spaces at the mall if the car drops you off and picks up another passenger?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Will we need traffic lights with the traditional red, yellow, and green lights if the intersection communicates directly to the vehicle?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThese are all part of a larger question: Are we truly prepared for IoT, where everything is connected? If you think these are strange questions, look at the tallest building in your community\u2014the one with all the communication devices on the roof. Governments were not prepared for the telecommunications boom and this is evidence of that. Instead, governments opted for a quick retrofit to place new technology on top of existing infrastructure.\r\n\r\nConsider that we have spent years placing utilities underground so they are hidden, only to have unsightly cell towers pop up at a rapid rate. Then we developed strict aesthetic guidelines to disguise those cell towers (unconvincingly, some may say) as trees.\r\n\r\nIf industry analysts looking at the development of smart communities are correct, everything will be \u201csensorized\u201d to collect data on road conditions, air quality, traffic flows, mobile devices, and constituent feedback. Infrastructure itself will actively collect, store, monitor, and use data. These factors need to be considered when building and designing new infrastructure.\r\n\r\nI believe disciplines such as geodesign will take a greater role in everyday urban, regional, and infrastructure planning. Geodesign principles take a more holistic approach to planning and work to balance gray and green infrastructure, explore impacts in 3D, and compare alternative scenarios to develop more livable and resilient communities. Infusing design with a blend of science- and value-based information, geodesign helps designers, planners, and stakeholders make better-informed decisions through impact assessments and evaluation of alternative scenarios.\r\n\r\nThe Geodesign Summit is an event dedicated to the exploration of this concept. This year, it was held January 23\u201325 in Redlands, California, on the Esri campus.\r\n\r\nTechnology is changing quickly, and these infrastructure issues need to be addressed sooner rather than later; otherwise, you may be trying to retrofit your community."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do You Want to Retrofit Your City? | Spring 2018 | ArcUser<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The trend for smart communities suggests the need for a digital transformation to allow decisions to be based on an abundance of data and made with greater agility.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/do-you-want-to-retrofit-your-city\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do You Want to Retrofit Your City?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The trend for smart communities suggests the need for a digital transformation to allow decisions to be based on an abundance of data and made with greater agility.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/do-you-want-to-retrofit-your-city\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Esri\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T18:02:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/auspr18_retrofit_card.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Esri\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\n\t    \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t    \"@graph\": [\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebPage\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/do-you-want-to-retrofit-your-city\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/do-you-want-to-retrofit-your-city\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Do You Want to Retrofit Your City? 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