CommunityViz™

CommunityViz™ is the first complete, multi-dimensional Planning Decision Support Systems Systems to be released commercially.

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Houston - Performance, Tracking, and Allocation

Under a grant from the Transportation and Community and System Preservation (TCSP), the City of Houston engaged the ESC to develop a land development model and performance tracking system to monitor growth along the City's Main Street Corridor. The goals of the system were threefold: 1) provide a system that measures the performance of the corridor with regards to community goals and values; 2) track change as it occurs, and 3) allocate future-year growth to where it is likely to occur. The system, dubbed the Performance/ Tracking/Allocation (P/T/A) system, consists of two parts: the P/T/A Land Development Model and the P/T/A Performance Report Card.

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Human Development Overlay District (HD-OD)

The Environmental Simulation Center (ESC) received a three-year grant from the Ford Foundation to develop the Human Development Overlay District (HD-OD^TM).  This initiative will harness emerging information technologies to connect the often fragmented social service and physical planning processes in neighborhoods undergoing rapid change due to catalytic development projects. 

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South Kingstown

In 2005, the Town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island engaged the ESC to develop a Built-out tool for the Town that showed ultimate town build-out under current zoning densities. 

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