Conveners
Roundtable: Regional Planning
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Roundtable: Generative AI
- Clayton Whitesides (Coastal Carolina University)
Roundtable: Student Roundtable
- Susan Lucas (University of Pittsburgh)
Roundtable: Regional Planning
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Roundtable: AGX Special Session
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Going from the basic understanding of the alignment needs for multi-county/regional planning and programming and the great number of possible alignments, "A Solution to the OMB recognized Geographic Need: 'a territorially exhaustive classification that covers all of the United States and Puerto Rico,' State Determined Sub-State Districts" will be presented. The fact that each State will have...
For decades, geographers have acknowledged the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to inform geographical problem solving (Couclelis, 1986; Openshaw & Openshaw, 1997; Smith, 1984). More recent applications have demonstrated the ability of AI to assist in analyzing remote sensing, GIS, and other geographic data (Hu, 2018; Janowicz, et al., 2019). The advent of generative AI feels...
Neighborhoods in small and medium sized legacy cities often struggle to deal with a vast array of problems, including vacant land. Top-down approaches to managing vacant land, including aggressive enforcement campaigns against tax delinquent property owners, and more recently, the creation of land banks, have largely failed to help local communities. Vacant land management strategies...
Planning requires the alignment of geographic data. GIS was a tool that should have helped in meeting this need, but that promise has not been met. The first Roundtable will look at the alignment problems which relate to the Red-Blue division in the US, essentially matters of scale.
The use of Social Index Matrixes to help predict market value of products such as green energy adoption and understanding the impact of regional adaptations of technology that may reduce the carbon footprint of the trucking industry are two examples of reserch areas where "unstructured data" holds the key to uncovering underlying driving forces that may lead to improvments in specific...
Small communities have tight budgets which often limit their ability to acquire data or narratives needed to seek out grants. Baselines resources for personnel in combination with community engagement continue to dwindle, making it ever more challenging to apply for critical funding. Creative ideas are needed to accurately collect, analyze and report of data needed to apply for grants,...
We've all been there. We’ve run out of money, people, resources while the mantra “do more with less” continues. Trimming of resources may have started during COVID for some and earlier for others with other budget cuts. Positions opened by retirement are left vacant while others are eliminated altogether. Managing the job “to do list” requires novel approaches under these conditions combined...
