Geodesign Tackles Big Problems and Brings GIS into the Design Fields

Th ere are now many new methods for modeling cities that diff er from the traditional approaches to simulating urban structure, land use, and transportation fl ows. As data has become richer and big-ger and computers have become all-pervasive, with ever-increasing memories and ever-faster processing times, it has become possible to model the behaviors of individual objects that make up data ag-gregates, such as populations, that were the focus of simulation models a decade or more ago. Individuals that compose these populations can now be represented as distinct objects withi