Description: Dr. Meenar's Community Planning and Visualization Lab explores the connections between social, natural, and built environments, and their influence in the process of planning for healthy, resilient, and equitable communities, with a focus on land, water, and food.
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Fall 2022 updates A feature story about the lab Meet Dr. Meenar ACSP Interview ABOUT The Community Planning + Visualization Lab uses a Biophilic Urbanism lens to explore the connection between people and their social, natural, and built environments and the influence this connection has on the planning process for developing sustainable, healthy, equitable, just, and "smart" communities. We examine how the nexus of land, water, and food play a role in spatial planning and community planning to make commun
We apply an innovative combination of participatory planning tools and geospatial or other digital/smart technologies in spatial planning, community engagement, and community capacity building efforts, with a specific focus on participatory and mixed-methods approaches with GIS and geo-visualization.