The role of community planners continues to evolve to a broader scope than ever before. Planners are called upon to provide strategies for developments to deal with economic opportunity, resilience planning, creating more walkable communities, and so forth. At the same time, the tools that planners have at their disposal to create, analyze, and visualize these developments have evolved rapidly, as well. In this session, we’ll discuss how these web-based tools empower planning professionals to make better, more sustainable, and more justifiable decisions, without being GIS experts.
