Keith Cooke
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Keith Cooke is the Director of Planning & Community Development Markets at Esri. A graduate of Auburn University, he has been a GIS professional since 1994 and has worked for planning and community development agencies at the regional and municipal level. Prior to this role, he was an account executive at Esri for 15 years working with over 100 local governments. He is a frequent speaker at GIS, community planning, and economic development events and is an active member in the American Planning Association, where he has conducted nearly 100 hands-on GIS workshops for planners since 2004 at the National Planning Conference and state chapter conferences.

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A Strong Foundation for GIS – What It Means for Planning Professionals

Explore this briefing about ArcGIS apps that planning departments need to help make better, more sustainable, and more justifiable decisions.

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Location and Policy Development for Housing

GIS has always been used in this arena to design land use and sites, but this evolving technology is now being used by to help validate policy.

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Resilience Planning Series – Acute Shocks and Chronic Stresses

GIS provides the tools to create and analyze designs, collaborate, and justify policies to make communities resilient in the short and long term.

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Resilience Planning Series – Taking a Data-Driven Approach to Affordable Housing

This is the second of a multi-part series focusing on the concepts of resilience planning and role of GIS and today’s planning professionals.

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Resilience Planning Series – Driving Sustainable Economic Restoration

This is the first of a multi-part series focusing on the concepts of resilience planning and role of GIS and today’s planning professionals.

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Advanced Approach to Citizen Engagement

Planners have a unique opportunity to leverage tools that meet the public’s expectations for how they engage their government.

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Planners and the Growing Trend of Counter-Urbanization

As planners are impacted by an increase in counter-urbanization GIS can help planners prepare in the short and long term.

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Community Planning and Policymaking for Homelessness

Planners are participating in policymaking beyond just typical changes in zoning and land use. One of which is managing homelessness.

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