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Mega-event sites can yield valuable information for urban planning and they provide a remarkable set of cases to study sustainability , resilience and the urban management of public spaces. This chapter examines concepts of resilience and the application of geodesign tools in the context of design and heritage conservation at former international exposition sites. Evaluation of two geodesign tools are derived from a university urban design workshop and a sponsored research project. Resilience is defined in terms of the ability for public spaces to retain a sense of place and history through preservation of historic resources and other cultural assets. The former mega-event sites can also contribute to the resilience of surrounding communities. Design and planning for these spaces requires interdisciplinary planning that responds to changing social and economic conditions and environmental imperatives. Geodesign tools, such as 3D modeling and scenario planning tools, have the potential to aid in this process. However, additional effort is needed to further develop this capacity, especially in terms of bridging different forms of intelligence about architecture, geography and landscape into a unified 3D GIS platform.
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More information about the use of ET can be found in Minner (2015).
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I would like to thank the research assistants for the NCPTT research project: Xiao Shi, Yanlei Feng, Nicolas Azel, Feiyang Sun, Geslin George, and Ethan Rhee. Thanks to all of the dedicated students in the urban design workshop and other research assistants: Brian Byrd, Michael Catsos, Hector Chang, Rashmi Gajare, Gabriel Halili, Irene Hung, Daniel McKenna-Foster, Christine Ma, Isaac Robb, Robert Rivera, Rachel Shindman, and Taru. I would also like to acknowledge members of the research advisory team: Thomas J. Campanella, Jeffrey Chusid, Andre Hafner, and Michael A. Tomlan.
This article was developed under a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, a unit of the National Park Service. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the National Park Service or the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. The Workshop also received support from Cornell Engaged Learning and Research and the Department of City and Regional Planning within the College of Architecture Art and Planning.
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Minner, J. (2017). Geodesign, Resilience and the Future of Former Mega-Event Sites. In: Geertman, S., Allan, A., Pettit, C., Stillwell, J. (eds) Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures. CUPUM 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57819-4_8
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