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Monday 17 October 2005: Session 2, 2:00:00 PM
Visioning Communities: The 3D GIS Approach
Presentation Abstract
Use of 3D visualization is becoming more common in the planning of sustainable and healthy communities. Although our surrounding is in three dimensions, we – the GIS users - always used to assume that the public would understand all of our 2D maps. Since several years the growing transformation of GIS map presentation from 2D to 3D has been providing a great impact on the visual representation of GIS data. A 3D map always reads better than a 2D one and that is why a virtual 3D simulation could be very convincing in public meetings. If communities can visualize how their neighborhoods would look like after 10 years, they could make more positive impact in their decision making process or community design process. With the examples of a number of research projects of the Center for Sustainable Communities at Temple University, PA, this paper will describe how and using which tools or software 3D GIS can be efficiently used in Growth Management Plan, Buildout Scenario, Neighborhood Redevelopment, and Floodplain Delineation.
Speaker Biographical Information
Md Mahbubur Meenar : Temple University, PA
Md Mahbubur R Meenar joined the Center for Sustainable Communities at Temple University Ambler in June 2002 as a GIS Coordinator. His area of concentration is Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Urban and Regional Analysis. Mr. Meenar received a M.S. degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) with a specialization in Information Technology and GIS in 2002. He worked as Research Assistant at the Center for Urban Studies and the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth at SUNY Buffalo from 2000 to 2002. He earned a B.A. in Architecture from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in 1997 and later joined as a lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Planning at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. He also worked as a professional architect from 1997 to 1999. Since 1999, Mr. Meenar has been actively involved in different applications of GIS in the field of urban and regional planning. Now he is interested in 3D GIS simulations and GIS & Database Design. He is also involved in web design, graphic design, and photography.
