Tech Helps Planners Weigh Development, Historic Preservation
A University of Pennsylvania project aims to make it easier for city planners to gauge resident preference for preserving historic homes against municipal needs for higher-density housing.
May 28, 2021 •
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In this month’s installment of the Innovation of the Month series, we highlight OurPlan, a project that is gathering and organizing land use preferences from actual residents to help planners better weigh development and preservation options. MetroLab’s Ben Levine and Josh Schacht spoke with the leaders of the project: Ken Steif, the director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Urban Spatial Analytics program, and Akira Drake Rodriguez, a planning professor at the University of Pennsylvania.