Urban and Community Planning

GIS for Building Communities

Discover location technology that supports planning for your community's needs

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Prioritize the human element when building communities

Effective and efficient smart planning uses a location-based, data-driven approach and prioritizes the human element in community design. Urban and community planners are achieving critical strategic goals like policy development through location intelligence. These planners play a key role in meeting challenges such as unemployment and lack of equal opportunity. Using GIS technology, planners determine how, when, and where their designs can have the greatest impact.

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Esri's Urban and Community Planning solution

  • Current and long-range planning

    Planners find themselves immersed in many daily challenges while also needing to achieve sustainable and equitable development. GIS web applications can use comprehensive data to visualize, measure, and analyze proposed developments.

  • Resilience planning

    Using resilience strategies in designs helps communities deal with acute shocks that require emergency management such as pandemics, natural disasters, and chronic stresses including homelessness, lack of economic opportunity, aging infrastructure, or poor transit systems.

  • Economic restoration and planning

    GIS provides a foundation for performing demographic analysis and applying sustainable design principles to your planning. Planners can ensure key stakeholders are aligned, promote smarter decision-making, and enable sustainable economic restoration and growth.

  • Community engagement

    Planners and residents rely on each other to meet the community's needs and shape its future. What occurs in a community is geographically personal; everyone who lives in a place cares about that place. GIS allows planners to cultivate a partnership with their residents.

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What's included in your special offer

Use an existing ArcGIS Online subscription or add Esri's configuration of 10 Creator and 50 Viewer user types with 10,000 annual credits. This provides free access to ArcGIS Solutions for planning, five annual subscriptions to ArcGIS Business Analyst, and includes the following:

ArcGIS Hub Premium

This community engagement software allows organizations to work with internal and external stakeholders, track progress, and improve outcomes.

  • 100 Creator user types (secure logins)

  • 10,000 annual service credits

ArcGIS Urban

ArcGIS Urban creates a 3D experience designed to drive policy and improve urban planning and decision-making.

  • 10 annual subscriptions

ArcGIS Pro Standard

The next generation desktop GIS supports data visualization, advanced analysis, and authoritative data maintenance.

  • Requires Creator user type

ArcGIS Insights

Fuse location analytics with open data science and business intelligence workflows. Answer questions you didn't know to ask.

  • 1 annual subscription

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