Transcript Community GIS - Digital Watershed

Community GIS
Will Craig
Center for Urban & Regional Affairs
University of Minnesota
Ladder of Participation
(Arnstein,
1969)
History
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1980 Information and Neighborhood Self-Help (URISA –
Toronto)
1994 Citizen Access Day (URISA – Milwaukee)
1998 Empowerment Marginalization and Public Participation
GIS (NCGIA)
2002 Community Participation and Geographic Information
Systems
PPGIS Conferences
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2002 New Brunswick NJ – Rutgers University
2003 Portland OR – Portland State University
2004 Madison WI – University of Wisconsin
2005 Cleveland State University
Project Examples
• Harrison Crime
• Hawthorne vacant/boarded, assets
• PPNA at-risk
• Whittier Supportive Housing
New Activities
• M3D Project
• New TOP grant from US Dept of
Commerce
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Job growth in the Central Cities
Affordable Housing in Suburbs
• Partner with neighborhoods, CDCs,
suburbs and DEED
• New Local Employment Dynamics data
• Maps and data on web
The Future?
• Web 2.0 (Mash-Up)
• 2 or more technologies connect seamlessly.
• Examples from “Marrying Maps to Data”
New York Times, June 18, 2005.
• How can neighborhoods use this technology?
Tour de France route information, created by a user of the Google Earth service
googleearthhacks.com (New York Times, 6/18/05)