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Esri recently created a new group called GeoDesign Services. Under the Professional Services umbrella, the GeoDesign Services group\u2014headed by long-time Esri employee Bill Miller<\/a>\u2014is tasked with exploring and extending the capabilities of GIS technology as related to GeoDesign and applying that technology to a variety of GeoDesign projects. I recently spoke with Shannon McElvaney, a Project Manager in the GeoDesign Services group, to get an update on what\u2019s currently happening in the GeoDesign<\/a> realm.
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Shannon McElvaney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/em>Shannon has nearly 20 years of experience in applying a broad range of geospatial technologies including remote sensing, GIS data collection, and spatial analysis with emphasis on sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. Prior to joining the GeoDesign Services group, he was the Site Control & GIS Manager on the $22B MASDAR<\/a> City Development Program, the first carbon neutral, zero waste city for the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company.
\nCityEngine<\/strong>
\nOf course, Esri\u2019s recent acquisition of Procedural<\/a>\u2019s CityEngine technology was the first topic of discussion (and one that Bern Szukalski blogged<\/a> about recently). From a GeoDesign perspective, integration of CityEngine with ArcGIS provides crucial enabling technology to support full 3D design in geographic space and accelerated use of inference engines.
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CityEngine will bring easy 3D content creation and design to ArcGIS users<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n<\/em>\u201cWhat we envision is the integration of GIS geoprocessing and spatial analytics with the powerful inference engine supplied by CityEngine,\u201d Shannon said. \u201cImagine the power this gives designers or planners. This will increase the ability of designers to visualize constraints, opportunities, and impact while working in 3D space. Imagine if land use codes, zoning rules, and engineering parameters were built into your pencil before you began to draw.\u201d This could include things such as road widths, building floor heights, sidewalk widths, curb heights, turning radii, building setbacks or utility easements to guide or inform you as you work allowing you to design alternatives, again and again, for rendering, visualization, and comparison.
\n2012 GeoDesign Summit<\/strong>
\nPlanning is currently underway for the 2012 GeoDesign Summit<\/a>, which will be held at Esri headquarters in Redlands, California on January 5-6, 2012. The number one request in the evaluations from last year\u2019s GeoDesign Summit was to see more examples of GeoDesign in practice\u2014actual case studies. \u201cOur hope is to do just that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are looking for innovative solutions, creative applications, provocative ideas, and solid case examples of applied GeoDesign across four topical areas: education, application, technology, and theory.\u201d
\nThe 2012 Summit promises to be both exciting and thought provoking. If you would like to attend or present, you can find more information here<\/a>.
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Braden Allenby will keynote the 2012 GeoDesign Summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n<\/em>And what about the keynote speaker? \u201cI can confirm that Braden Allenby<\/a> has agreed to keynote the 2012 GeoDesign Summit,\u201d Shannon was happy to report. Allenby is an environmental scientist, environmental attorney, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Law at Arizona State University. He is a co-founder of the earth systems engineering and management<\/a> (ESEM) discipline, which looks to “rationally design and manage coupled human-natural systems in a highly integrated and ethical fashion.” His 2005 book Reconstructing Earth: Technology and Environment in the Age of Humans<\/em><\/a><\/em> explores development of a new, more sophisticated approach to the environment that considers the power of the human species over earth systems. Allenby\u2019s latest book (with co-author Daniel Sarewitz), The Techno-Human Condition<\/em><\/a>, was published in April of this year and explores what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. \u201cThe GeoDesign Summit is always stimulating and thought provoking, and Allenby is the perfect match,\u201d Shannon added. \u201cHe is provocative and bit of a futurist. He will definitely fan the creative fires we have come to expect at the Summit.\u201d
\nPlanning is also underway for the first GeoDesign Summit in China. \u201cDetails are being worked out, but it looks like it will take place in 2013,\u201d he said.
\nBook of GeoDesign Case Studies<\/strong>
\nShannon is also writing a book of GeoDesign Case Studies. The book will briefly introduce GeoDesign in the context of Carl Steinitz<\/a>\u2019s GeoDesign Framework and then show how the essence of that framework has been applied using real case studies. \u201cCurrent cases cover a wide spectrum from city, to neighborhood, to ecosystem but we need more. If you have a real project you feel exemplifies GeoDesign, we\u2019re still looking for more case studies to include in the book.\u201d Shannon can be reached at SMcElvaney@esri.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_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":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[275952],"tags":[276272,209762],"class_list":["post-18","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-geodesgn","tag-geodesign-summit"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat's New in GeoDesign?<\/title>\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\/insider\/what-s-new-with-geodesign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What's New in GeoDesign?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Esri recently created a new group called GeoDesign Services. 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