Plannovation

In “Your Urban Planning Presentation is Boring. Here’s Why and How to Fix It”, I beat you up about giving boring presentations. So it’s only fair that I go into detail about how to give an engaging presentation along with a real world example.   Quick Recap of How to Fix Boring Presentations 10% Fix: [...]

The Short Version I pulled Census 2010 data for 20 walkable neighborhoods in the United States and compared the racial percentages for those neighborhoods to the racial percentages of either the city or county surrounding the neighborhood. Two patterns appeared. Walkable neighborhoods are less diverse than their surrounding cities/counties. Blacks & Hispanics are less likely [...]

I recently got a request from a user to provide Census 2010 cities data for all cities in the United States through Cubit’s new new Name Your Geography feature. The Cubit user requesting this data said that the “American Fact Finder 2 is currently throwing an error for this search.” Since I’ve already pulled Census 2010 Redistricting [...]

Presentations at planning conferences, networking events and public involvement meetings are boring. There. I said it. And yes, I’m talking about your presentations. And mine for that matter. I’ve decided to stop giving boring urban planning presentations. Here’s why and how. Ignore this blog post at the peril of your career. The Urban Planning Presentation Formula Urban [...]