A four‐part framework for geodesign software creation and research

Abstract

Geodesign is an urban planning framework which combines the traditionally separated tasks of landscape planning, site planning, and geographic analysis through automated software flows. Through the amalgamation of these elements, a user gains a fuller picture of the environment they are planning for and becomes better equipped to explain planning decisions. As planning processes become increasingly complex, geodesign software becomes necessary to successfully facilitate planning. Using the software product Engineer Site Identification for the Technical Environment (ENSITE) as an example, this article provides a framework for successful geodesign products made up of four aspects: rapid development; flexible software architecture; global data; team of subject matter experts.

An integrated decision driven design framework to support the ecological restoration of rivers

“…To accomplish this, the Geodesign framework (Steinitz, 2012) was integrated with key elements from Structured Decision Making (SDM) (Gregory et al, 2012). Geodesign is at the forefront (Li and Milburn, 2016) of these applications and is a design and planning methodology that tightly couples the creation of a design proposal with impact simulations informed by geographic context (Steinitz, 2012;McMillan-Wilhoit et al, 2018). SDM is an approach that allows careful and organized analysis of natural resource management decisions.…”