https://spatialthoughts.com/category/urbanplanning/Recent content in Urban Planning on Spatial ThoughtsHugoen-usSat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2025/03/29/building_height_gee/Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2025/03/29/building_height_gee/In this post, you will learn how to work with the Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal data and download it for many useful downstream applications, such as Visibility Analysis, Population Modeling, and 3D...https://spatialthoughts.com/2021/05/14/weighted-centroids-qgis-gee/Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2021/05/14/weighted-centroids-qgis-gee/In this post, I will outline techniques for computing weighted-centroids in both QGIS and Google Earth Engine. For a polygon feature, the centroid is the geometric center. It can also be thought of...https://spatialthoughts.com/2021/03/15/gis-in-urban-and-regional-planning/Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialthoughts.com/2021/03/15/gis-in-urban-and-regional-planning/I recently taught a 1-month long course on GIS Applications in Urban and Regional Planning. We explored how GIS can be applied to solve problems in 6 different thematic areas. In this post, I will...