What better way to envision the future of a city than with a cartoon? None, I say!
But before you write this off as the "I like cartoons" blog post from the youngest Interchange contributor, consider that the market for urban planning visualization has seen a huge surge in recent years. Advances in technology have made it much easier to show communities and clients what a new town center may look like, or how transportation patterns might be affected by new public transit infrastructure, or what would happen to a coastal town when the ice caps melt. Interactive mapping tools such as GIS, CAD, SketchUp, Google Earth, and other 3D modeling programs do what planners in a town hall just can't: they literally show people what's going to happen and how it's going to look...
But before you write this off as the "I like cartoons" blog post from the youngest Interchange contributor, consider that the market for urban planning visualization has seen a huge surge in recent years. Advances in technology have made it much easier to show communities and clients what a new town center may look like, or how transportation patterns might be affected by new public transit infrastructure, or what would happen to a coastal town when the ice caps melt. Interactive mapping tools such as GIS, CAD, SketchUp, Google Earth, and other 3D modeling programs do what planners in a town hall just can't: they literally show people what's going to happen and how it's going to look...