"},{"ID":237172,"user_firstname":"Till","user_lastname":"Schmid","nickname":"Till Schmid","user_nicename":"tschmid","display_name":"Till Schmid","user_email":"tschmid@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2021-06-04 17:35:33","user_description":"Till Schmid is a Product Engineer in the ArcGIS Urban team at the Esri R&D Center in Zurich. After studying urban planning at ETH Zurich, he worked as a transportation planner designing and optimizing multimodal transportation systems. At Esri, he applies his knowledge in the field of planning and simulation to further improve ArcGIS Urban and how the cities of the future are planned.","user_avatar":"
"},{"ID":8122,"user_firstname":"Katelyn","user_lastname":"Thompson","nickname":"Katelyn Thompson","user_nicename":"kthompson","display_name":"Katie Thompson","user_email":"KThompson@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-06-26 17:47:19","user_description":"Katie Thompson is a Product Marketing Manager at Esri who got her start with GIS during her undergraduate studies and holds a master's degree in urban and regional planning. Today, she focuses on creating content and messaging to help planners make the most of their GIS, especially through 3D tools like ArcGIS Urban and ArcGIS CityEngine.","user_avatar":"
"}],"short_description":"ArcGIS Urban allows you to meet the needs of iterative planning: edit the study area, update existing conditions and copy between scenarios.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Many urban planning efforts need to adapt to changing circumstances. Read this blog post to learn how to use ArcGIS Urban to embrace change in urban planning:<\/p>\n
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A city’s planning department identified an area in a neighborhood with a considerable potential for densification. Now, they envision transforming the area into a highly livable mixed-use neighborhood. Redeveloping the mentioned area will alleviate the city’s housing shortage and contribute to the city’s goal of reducing urban sprawl.<\/p>\n
During the planning process, it becomes apparent that a developer plans to rebuild several parcels adjacent to the city’s transformation study area. Consequently, the developer and the planning department agree to include the parcels in the city’s study area. This allows for a holistic view and the coordination of the two planning efforts.<\/p>\n
Let’s see how you can implement the outlined scenario with Urban.<\/p>\n
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Image yourself as the urban planner in this scenario. You already designed a future development scenario for the transformation plan. Now, you want to expand the city’s plan study area to include the developer’s parcels. The blue rectangle below depicts the location of the developer’s parcels.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2252622,"id":2252622,"title":"Developer's parcels adjacent to the study area","filename":"Design-MarkupBlue.png","filesize":1374434,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/urban\/data-management\/iterative-planning-with-arcgis-urban\/design-markupblue","alt":"The developer's parcels are adjacent to the plan study area.","author":"9662","description":"","caption":"The developer's parcels are adjacent to the plan study area.","name":"design-markupblue","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2252592,"date":"2024-02-23 13:09:32","modified":"2024-02-23 16:34:23","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1380,"height":1011,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue.png","medium-width":356,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":563,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue.png","large-width":1380,"large-height":1011,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue.png","1536x1536-width":1380,"1536x1536-height":1011,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue.png","2048x2048-width":1380,"2048x2048-height":1011,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue-635x465.png","card_image-width":635,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design-MarkupBlue.png","wide_image-width":1380,"wide_image-height":1011}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
First, you need to expand the study area of the existing plan to include the developer’s parcels:<\/p>\n
As a result, our updated study area now includes the area of the developer’s parcels. However, it does not yet include the actual parcel geometries.<\/p>\n
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Next, we want to import the developer’s parcels to our plan with the expanded study area. You can update and import new parcels to an existing plan in two steps:<\/p>\n
Each plan in Urban includes an Existing scenario reflecting the current situation. The new “Import parcels from Urban Model” feature makes it easy for you to update the Existing scenario:<\/p>\n
Eventually, you want to include the developer’s parcels in your development scenario. You can easily achieve this by copying them from the Existing scenario to the development scenario:<\/p>\n
You have now successfully expanded the plan’s study area and updated the Existing and development scenarios to include the developer’s parcels. At this point, the plan is ready to include both the city’s and developers’ design proposals. It now provides a holistic view of the planned developments within the updated study area, as shown in the image below.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2252802,"id":2252802,"title":"City and developer proposals","filename":"Design__Developer.png","filesize":1339102,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/urban\/data-management\/iterative-planning-with-arcgis-urban\/design__developer","alt":"The plan includes the city's and developer's design proposals.","author":"9662","description":"","caption":"The plan includes the city's and developer's design proposals.","name":"design__developer","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2252592,"date":"2024-02-23 15:39:00","modified":"2024-02-26 13:30:01","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1380,"height":1012,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer.png","medium-width":356,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":563,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer.png","large-width":1380,"large-height":1012,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer.png","1536x1536-width":1380,"1536x1536-height":1012,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer.png","2048x2048-width":1380,"2048x2048-height":1012,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer-634x465.png","card_image-width":634,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Design__Developer.png","wide_image-width":1380,"wide_image-height":1012}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Planning processes are often uncertain and depend on changing circumstances. That is why the February 2024 release of Urban introduces new tools to meet the needs of such living plans. You can now modify the study area of existing plans, import parcels from the Urban Model to plan scenarios and copy parcels between scenarios. The blog post describes a best practice for this workflow.<\/p>\n
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The two steps allow you to specify which parcels should become part of your design scenario. In addition, you don’t risk accidentally deleting proposed buildings from your design scenarios.<\/p>\n
Urban doesn’t allow for incremental data updates in scenarios. For this reason, you need to delete all parcels from a scenario before importing new ones. Because proposed developments are always linked to a parcel, you risk losing proposed developments by deleting all parcels from a design scenario. The existing scenario never contains proposed developments. Therefore it is safest to use the existing scenario for bringing in updates.<\/p>\n
Parcels and developments outside the study area remain visible in the scene view. However, they are not included in the space use legend in the development mode. They are also ignored for the metric calculations reported in the dashboard mode. If parcels are outside the study area, you’ll see a warning icon in both modes. As you hover over this item, the parcels outside the study area will be highlighted in the scene view.<\/p>\n
This is not yet possible with the current version of Urban. We might add this feature in the future.<\/p>\n
The proposed development is copied to the target scenario together with its associated parcel.<\/p>\n
You can choose from two options on how overlap in the target scenario should be handled:<\/p>\n