Community GISWill Craig

Center for Urban & Regional AffairsUniversity of Minnesota

Ladder of Participation

(Arnstein, 1969)

History• 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

• 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

•Focus on:• 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 servicegoogleearthhacks.com (New York Times, 6/18/05)