Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Visioning and Visualization Workshop

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, whose mission includes "integrating theory and practice to better shape land policy" and "improving the quality of debate and disseminating knowledge of critical issues in land policy," invited the Environmental Simulation Center and ACP Visioning and Planning to develop a workshop for professional planners on "Visioning and Visualization.

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Long Island City

In response to the severe lack of office space in Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs, the Environmental Simulation Center, in partnership with the Regional Plan Association, Thompson Design, and Jonathon Rose Companies, developed proposals to create the City's fourth Regional Center in Long Island City. The proposal built on a prior study done with Robert B. Pauls for the LIC/LDC that proposed a Regional Center of approximately 20-24 million SF.

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Lower Manhattan - 3D GIS

Through a grant from the Kaplan Foundation, the ESC developed a 3D Geographic Information System (3D GIS)to examine the adaptive-reuse potential for large amounts of vacant spaces in older office buildings that were no longer suitable for office uses (approximately 25 million square feet).

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Mapping Our Heritage Project

Heritage Information will be linked to place through a multi-dimensional seamless environment

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Midtown Zoning - Regulatory Design

In 1980, the Chairman of the City Planning Commission in New York created a special task force to reevaluate the zoning regulations for Midtown that had been in place since 1961. Its main goal was to review the environmental impact that the discretionary review process had produced, especially concerning the amount of available daylight to streets, parks, plazas, and task lighting for office buildings, and propose as-of-right zoning regulations that would substitute for the uncertainties associated with discretionary zoning.

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