Despite the recent slowdown in U.S. population growth, the Census Bureau expects the U.S. population to exceed 400 million by 2050. Where will all these new people go? Where should they go? No one knows for sure, but a new generation of GIS-based urban growth and visualization models can help urban and regional planners develop robust scenarios connecting present-day policies to future urban growth patterns and environmental conditions.
Professor Landis will explore the theory underlying these models and show how they can be used to forecast urban growth and its impacts.