Urban Design Service Offerings

Here are some bullet points on the characteristics of urban resilience that we can model – characteristics that we can also create projects to address.

TOOLS:

• Existing tools:
  • https://www.resilienceshift.org/tools/
  • https://www.cityresilienceindex.org/
• FOODSHED ASSESSMENT / DIET AND LAND MODELING
  • Post-Carbon Institute
  • Model: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xuI-FxsMBtKSHrpuXECeiGWeBbvExZqFMuBjugvymTI/edit#gid=162663044
  • Explainer guide: The-Future-Is-Rural-2019 , Page 80
• Natural Infrastructure:
  • LA Stormwater
  • Pima Green Infrastructure Tool
• URBAN FOREST MODELING:
  • ArcGIS Pro
    • Pull Landsat and Sentinel Datasets by:
      • Year (2008, 2015)
      • Time of Day (Morning, Afternoon, Night)
      • Spectrum (RGB / Panchromatic / Multispectral)
    • Additional data:
      • Air Quality
        • CO2
        • CO
        • S
        • PM
        • O2
      • Water gages
        • Flow rate
        • Velocity
        • Temperature
      • Water quality
        • BOD
      • Transit Data
        • Pedestrian Trips
        • Auto
        • Bus / Rail
      • Health Data
        • Demographic stats (census block)

• Classification:
  • Block-level summary stats
  • Contiguous Wildlife Corridors
  • Create building footprints
  • Create tree attribute database
  • Create soil attribute database
  • Land Use