community gis in nyc
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Community GIS in NYC. or “How to Present a Case Study from the Book (or elsewhere)”. Pedagogical Purpose. YOU get close-up familiarity with an application of GIS YOU get practice preparing and giving a short presentation YOUR CLASSMATES learn about an application of GIS - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Community GIS in NYC
or “How to Present a Case Study from the Book (or elsewhere)”
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Pedagogical Purpose
• YOU get close-up familiarity with an application of GIS
• YOU get practice preparing and giving a short presentation
• YOUR CLASSMATES learn about an application of GIS
• WE ALL have an opportunity to see connections, think of new questions, etc.
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What the Case Study is About
• General: How GIS is used by big city NPOs as tool for outreach, community involvement and planning.
• Specific. The Municipal Art Society (MAS) is a NYC NPO “whose mission is to promote a more livable city.” MAS uses GIS to support various community/neighborhood projects
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Four Projects
• Post 9/11 “Imagine New York”
• Lower Manhattan Preservation Fund
• Community-based Planning
• Olympic Planning
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“Imagine New York”
Challenges/Goals
Rebuilding after 9/11
Impulse to get lots of folks involved
Democratize tools – give participants maps
Recruitment (diversity and target areas)
Document breadth of participation
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Targeting Recruitment
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Documenting Participation
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Community-based Planning
• At local level, provide GIS support for local discussions
• Where is it already happening, where might it be encouraged
• At macro level, allow plan information to be combined on one map
• See city-wide distribution of plans and implications• Allow neighborhoods to identify others with
similar concerns
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An Aside: What’s a Charrette?
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Provide GIS Tools to
Community Groups
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Combine Local Plans in City-wide Context
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Overlaying Plans Shows Implicit Collective Vision
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Maps Show Latent
Conflicts and Opportunities
for Collaboration
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http://www.mas.org/planningcenter/atlas/
FYI: What They Produced…