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# Geodesign: Case Studies in Regional and Urban Planning Paperback – June 25, 2012

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Do not buy - it's simply an ESRI PR manual with pictures
  

*by M***V on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2012*

I am developing a Master's thesis into GeoDesign, so when I saw this book I jumped on it expecting some in-depth explanation to the basis of GeoDesign. It is nothing more than ESRI saying "GeoDesign is cool and you should buy our products to see why." I should have known better considering the price of the book. Unless you want ESRI blowing smoke up your nether-regions and nothing of academic substance, do not waste your money on this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    good
  

*by S***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2013*

my friend asked me to buy the book and send him, he lives in Iran right now and it seems the book is useful for him.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interested in geodesign?  This book does have value
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2013*

I think the previous review of this book is a bit unfair.  It sounds to me like the review was more a matter of unmet expectations and a need for a different treatment of this subject.  While I applaud reviewer for starting a Master's thesis on the topic (certainly something VERY important to the future of geodesign) it does not mean this book is not helpful to readers interested in learning about geodesign.  In fact, several of the students I had in a GIS class last fall who were very interested in geodesign enjoyed and complimented this book.  They said it helped them get their minds around what is really meant by the term geodesign through the case studies of the book.  It helped to make the term more real and concrete for them and gave them good examples of its practice.  If professionals in academic circles desire more "in-depth explanation to the basis of geodesign" and "academic substance" why don't we publish materials that meet this need as Esri press has done for the needs of people brand new to geodesign?  They are certainly different needs (and therefore audiences) but, with the geodesign in its infancy an an established design method, all have value.  Geodesign is a method that is ripe for research and publishing.This book is just what it says it is and the subtitle spells out - "Case Studies in Regional and Urban Planning" presented within the context of the professional evolution of geodesign.  It's not a "how-to-do" book but rather illuminates trends, success factors, lessons learned and fundamental underpinnings of the topic.  This is accomplished through a wide variety of case studies from grassroots community groups, government agencies, private design firms, university think-tanks, and non-governmental research centers.  These illustrate that geodesign is being done by a very broad and diverse group of stakeholders: design professionals, geographic scientists, IT professionals, "systems-thinkers" and, most importantly, interested citizens or what Carl Steinitz refers to "the people of the place" in 
  
A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design







  
  
    This book has value to readers new to the topic and interested in learning about how geodesign can be done on a variety of projects with differing spatial scales, project sizes, and multiple dimensions (2D, 3D, 4D, etc).  This is key when considering that geodesign is still very early in its evolution as a design method.  I believe that many designers in the varied design-related professions throughout this world may have actually been doing geodesign for years without even knowing it much less have a meaningful term to describe what they do.  Helping to properly define the evolving term geodesign is one of the many things that this book does pretty well through the varied case studies and rightly avoids confusing the reader with all the various definitions floating about inside and outside of academia (I can count at least 10 and all seem valid).  McElvaney's "Geodesign" goes beyond these and illustrates that geodesign is much more about the evolving processes, group dynamics, participatory fundamentals, and identifying and measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) than the tools.  This includes Esri's tools, which the company officials are quick to admit still need to evolve to support fully geodesign by any definition.  As the book points out by quoting Doug Walker of Placeways "The geodesign process can be as important as the tools."While the case studies in this book may have their origins in the growing geodesign community and it is true that Esri is helping to organize the community by sponsoring an annual geodesign summit, I certainly do NOT think this book is an Esri "sales pitch" for purchasing products.  If it is, it is certainly a poor one!  In fact, the case studies cover the use of many non-Esri tools - Microsoft Excel, Sketchup, CAD, Adobe Illustrator, OpenWare, etc. - with several that could be considered competitive to Esri's own ArcGIS platform.  It is my opinion that Esri press has done the emerging "geodesign movement" a service by taking the real step and publishing a book like this on this increasingly important topic.

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