For community meetings, we constructed an interactive commercial and residential streetscape that easily allowed residents to visualize redevelopment plans. These graphics enable us to turn on and off layers of information to concisely address questions and issues as they arise.
Our residential streetscape allowed residents to have an intelligent dialogue with the developer by visualizing modifications to the proposal. The result is developers now have a guide to better understand how to blend new construction with the existing character of the neighborhood.
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See the tutorial I put together for UIC College of Urban Planning on Managing Photographs of Urban Spaces
Microsoft Research presented this tool at Siggraph 2010. Here is what they say:
Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to virtually visit cities by navigating between immersive 360panoramas, or bubbles. The discrete moves from bubble to bubble enabled in these systems do not provide a good visual sense of a larger aggregate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective “strip” panoramas can provide a visual summary of a city street but lack the full realism of immersive panoramas.
Imagine creating your own layer of proposed buildings within this viewer where you can easily navigate down the street and see future development, signage regulations, and landscape plans.
