Abstract

Design the Future of South Florida
Track: Urban and Regional Planning
Authors: Li Yi

In this talk, the presenter will showcase a regional planning project - Seven50, meaning seven counties in the next 50 years, focus on how the GIS can be used as a tool to design the future of one of the most fast growing regions in United States. Four future scenarios based on the different modeling criteria has been created for the purposes of communicating the effects of changes in land use, transportation, environmental and agricultural policy, primarily for a lay audience.