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Introduction
This course is about how to use GIS technology to solve urban problems. The application problems that will be discussed in the class are from areas including urban planning and design, public administration, business decision-making, environment assessment, land use change, and social and political issues. The data, spatial analytical techniques, and GIS software that have been used in these applications will be examined through studying real-world examples. The class contains three components: the lectures, the lab exercises and the term project. The software packages used for the lab exercises include ArcGIS and MapInfo.
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Searching the online catalog
The link below is a suggested search using the online catalog.
- geographic information systems AND urbanThis is a keyword search.
Introductory reading(s)
These books provide an introduction to GIS and its uses for the urban environment.
Exploring the urban community: a GIS approach by Call Number: Baker-Berry GF 125 .G74 2012ISBN: 9780321751591Publication Date: 2nd ed.Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach leverages the modern geographer's toolset, employing the latest GIS methodology to the study of urban geography. The Second Edition expands upon this timely, applied approach by incorporating new "internet GIS" Google Earth(tm) activities, which do not require students to own expensive software or travel to a school lab. ...
Geospatial tools for urban water resources by Call Number: Baker-Berry TD 353 .G45 2013ISBN: 9789400747340This book examines the application of geotechniques to address a wide range of issues facing urban water resources. Growing populations leading to urbanization and related development have lead to problems associated with water quality, storm water management, flood control, environmental health, and related ecosystem impacts. Major cities and other urban areas are facing challenges in addressing the implications of impacts to water resources. ...
GIS for the urban environment by Call Number: Baker-Berry HT 153 .M314 2006ISBN: 9781589480827This introduction to urban planning applications and problem solving with GIS is appropriate for students and professionals in the fields of geography, urban studies, urban planning, urban public health, urban environmental assessment, and hazard and emergency management. ...
GIS in sustainable urban planning and management: a global perspective by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781138505551GIS is used today to better understand and solve urban problems. GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: A Global Perspective, explores and illustrates the capacity that geo-information and GIS have to inform practitioners and other participants in the processes of the planning and management of urban regions. The first part of the book addresses the concept of sustainable urban development, its different frameworks, the many ways of measuring sustainability, and its value in the urban policy arena. The second part discusses how urban planning can shape our cities, examines various spatial configurations of cities, the spread of activities, and the demands placed on different functions to achieve strategic objective. ...
Selected book title(s)
Cities made of boundaries: mapping social life in urban form by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781787351073Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is operationalized by a mapping practice utilizing Geographical Information Systems (GIS). ...
Regional and urban GIS: a decision support approach by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781606233368This unique text shows students and professionals how geographic information systems (GIS) can guide decision making about complex community and environmental problems. The authors' step-by-step introduction to GIS-based decision analysis methods and techniques covers important urban and regional issues (land, transportation, and water resource management) and decision processes (planning, improvement programming, and implementation). ...
Remotely sensed cities by Call Number: Baker-Berry HT 166 .R3574 2003ISBN: 9780415260459New urban applications are emerging for remote sensing, in particular with the use of high-resolution data for measuring, monitoring and analysis. This comes through the use of high spatial resolution imaging, such as for precision mapping of cities; new techniques for population mapping; extracting urban land use features, and evaluating the city energy patterns; and through the use of night-time imagery for determining populations and economic activity, particularly on a global scale. Remotely Sensed Cities helps to redress the balance with remote sensing books, most of which are dedicated to the physical environment. ...
Other library resource(s)
Urban geography from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002... The study of urban geography can help us have a better appreciation of the economics of what goes on within cities and recognize the inter-dependencies involved in local, national, and international economic development in an increasingly globalized world. ...- Urban planning and geography from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002... Planning overlaps with geography when it examines the spaces of everyday life, spatial relationships among its different dimensions, and the processes that create them. ...
Urban studies from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780190922481Urban Studies is a broad, interdisciplinary field of study that includes subfields not only in most of the major social sciences, but also in the humanities, and in more technical fields such as architecture, planning, engineering, environmental science, and legal studies. What binds together urbanist scholars in various disciplines is a focus on the lived experiences of larger social systems and structural forces in specific places marked by large, dense, and heterogeneous populations. ...
Internet resource(s)
- GIS for the Urban & Community Planning from EsriThis site includes ideas, examples and other information for using GIS in urban applications.
- Urban GISThis is a company that specializes in using GIS for urban applications. They have 1 page summaries of some of their projects online.
- Why is GIS Technology Important to Urban Planning? from the Los Angeles City Planning office
Cities are constantly evolving, which is why GIS has been an important tool for urban planners. GIS technology has helped inform project alternatives. The importance of GIS lies in its ability to pull together the vast amounts of information necessary to balance competing priorities and solve complicated problems — optimizing new land uses to accommodate growing populations.
