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PlanIT Impact demonstrated its application using Kansas City's 19th and Grand Street corridor as a case study. Historically the densest block in Kansas City, the corridor is now a parking lot. It explored what would happen if they built a variety of structures there.
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Dominique Davison of DRAW Architecture + Urban Design shows off PlanIT Impact at the Global City Team Challenge Expo in June 2015. The interactive resource impact tool helps designers, planners, developers and students better understand project impacts at the earliest stages of the planning and design process.
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The PlanIT Impact app ties together open data with 3-D modeling tools to give designers a clearer picture of the resources their project will use--things like storm-water impact, water and energy usage, and greenhouse gas emissions--while they are in the design phase.
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