A half-day conference on urban planning and technology
Hosted at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)
Friday, April 8, 2011
11:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Location: MIT Building 9
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Hashtag: #planningtech11 (Twitter)
Description
New technologies are transforming how we communicate, expanding access to data and information, and revolutionizing how we understand and navigate our cities. Join a diverse groups of practitioners, scholars, students, and citizens for a half-day conference on the impact of these changes on the field of urban planning. Held one day before the start of the American Planning Association National Conference (also in Boston), this will be an opportunity to meet innovators from around New England and the across the nation.
The event will include discussion of urban modeling, urban sensing for planning, planning support systems, meeting technologies, social media and Web 2.0 tools, and gaming for participation.
About This Wiki
Attendees are encouraged to contribute to this wiki by posting links, notes, and other materials. Each break-out session has a page, as well as one page for all of the lighting talks. In addition, participants are welcome to add themselves to the attendee directory.
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Schedule
11:30 AM - 12:45 AM
The New Frontier of Point Specific Data: Big Opportunities, Big Responsibilities
Amy Glasmeier, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Deploying the Future's Open-Access Municipal Fiber Optic Networks
Jason Whittet, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Real-time Visualization of Place-based Comments
Crystal Wilson, PlaceVision
Hacking your neighborhood
Frank Hebbert, OpenPlans
Planning to Plan: The Web in Planning Education
Jase Wilson, UMKC School of Architecture Urban Planning & Design
Breaking the Rules of Public Participation: Lessons From High and Low Tech Outreach
Ann Sussman
Transit Transparency: A Real Time Action Cycle
Francisca Rojas, Transparency Policy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Seven and a Half Easy Steps for Raising $15,000 From Investors to Build Your New Planning Technology Prototype
Kristen Carney, Cubit Planning
Lunch
12:45 - 1:45 PM
Presentation Sessions
Will be held 2 - 3:30 PM and 3:45- 5:15 PM
- Application of GIS Methods to Identify the Urban Silhouette of Mashhad City [paper] (Rahman Tafahomi, et al)
- Mapping the Informal City for Public Accountability: The Case of Chennai, India (Nithya Raman)
- From Planning to Gaming: High Performance Geoprocessing and User Experience (Robert Cheetham)
- Constructed Futures: The Language of Technological Progress [paper] (Leah Marthinsen)
- Crowd Sourced City: Seeing the City Through a New Lens (Sarah Williams)
- Dashboards, Mashboards, Washboards, Planning Boards, and Other (Possibly-Futile) Attempts to Make Sense of Overwhelming Information in a Complex World [paper] (Ezra Glenn)
- WordPress for Government Websites?! (Jase Wilson)
- Web-based Collaboration Among FEMA and its Partners (Andrew Freese)
- From Freedom of Information to Open Government: Access to Massachusetts Municipal Spatial Data (Rob Goodspeed)
- Texting, Mobile Blogging and Relationship Building: Making Civic Media Work in Low-Income Communities of Color (Stefanie Ritoper)
- City Top Level Domains as Urban Infrastructure (Thomas Lowenhaupt) - The slides from my presentation are available on this evolving page reporting on the DUSP experience. The PowerPoint may also be directly for download here.
- Digital Literacy for Community Economic Development (Paula Robinson)
- Wii Hacks for Participatory Planning: Interactive Climate Change Scenario Planning using CommunityViz and Other Low Cost Tools (Jason Lally and Amy Anderson)
- Local Scenario Modeling for Sustainable Growth (Tim Reardon and Rob Goodspeed)
- Participatory Scenario Simulation: The Case of Florida's Greater Everglades Landscape (Mike Flaxman and Juan Carlos Vargas)
- Micro-participation: The Role of Twitter in Promoting Engagement in Planning [paper] (Jennifer Evans-Cowley)
- Crowdsourced in Connecticut: How Two Downtowns Are Taking Revitalization to the People [paper] (Elaine Clisham)
- Broadening Public Engagement in Planning through Social and Digital Media (Andrea Winkler and Ian Malczewski)
Discussion & Close
5:30 - 6:30 PM - in Room 9-450
Reception
6:45 PM - Joint reception with Kevin Lynch Awards/DUSP Alumni at 6th Floor, MIT Media Lab
Organizing Committee
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