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SimCity, says Peter Calthorpe, an expert in the field and the co-founder of UrbanFootprint.Calthorpe began his career as an urban planner
and designer in the late seventies, and in the mid-eighties he wrote the book on sustainable communities alongside the famous architect and
designer, Sim Van der Ryn.Working on design and development projects across Portland, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and (my home state)
in an interview.That tool became the basis for UrbanFootprint, which is a way to visualize certain developments and use the software to
so interconnected in all of their dimensions, looking at multiple outcomes simultaneously is the healthiest and the best way to think about
was sold last May to the infrastructure development giant HDR).UrbanFootprint actually spun out of Calthorpe as a separate company roughly
three years ago and is now looking to expand thanks to an $11.5 million investment from venture capital firms, including previous investor
agencies and commercially collected data sets, to create a super-schema of land use across the entire United States, DiStefano says
The software then serves up existing conditions based on queries for any parcel of land anywhere the UrbanFootprint software has data.Above:
companies to place bikes and scooters in neighborhoods and how those decisions effect job accessibility and neighborhood
amenities.Meanwhile, the much-maligned Northern California utility Pacific Gas and Electric is using UrbanFootprint to see how heat waves
to ensure that PG-E is building a resilient system that will be able to continue to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy to its
and communities in which we serve
UrbanFootprint is an important partner to us as we seek data and tools that allow us to assess and mitigate these risks in a thoughtful
cities in the United States , providing answers for complex scenarios in a matter of hours
This is a phenomenal effort as we move to seven billion urban citizens by 2050, with the urgent need of this decade being resilience and
