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READINGS Hutchinson, Scott and Larry Daniel. Inside ArcView GIS. Albany, NY: OnWord Press, 2000. (read Chapter 1: "Introducing ArcView" and Chapter 3: "Getting Started: Projects and Views") Monmonier, Mark S. How to Lie with Maps. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991. (read "Elements of the Map" and Chapter 2) Bossard, Earl G. and Haiyan Zhang. "Loosely Coupled PC Programs as a Framework for Spatial Analysis." URISA 1993 Annual Conference Proccedings 3 (1993): 38-47.
Introduction To 11.208 And Thematic Mapping Lecture 1 Producing and printing thematic maps
Lab A
Building and printing a simple map from database tables and boundary files Crime Case Study and Elementary Database Management Case study in analytic mapping Ferreira, J. "Spatial Patterns of Property Crimes and Socio-Economic Characteristics." (1986). Lewis, S. "Data, Computers and Planners." Ferreira, J. "Database Management Tools for Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association 56, no. 1 (1990): 78-84. MSQuery Manual: Introduction and Excerpts
Lecture 2
Getting data into a database (data import, entry) Simple queries on a database (selecting fields and records, simple aggregation) Getting data out of the database (data export)
SES # Lab B
TOPICS Essential database operations: data input, simple queries, output. Making Sense Of The Census, Part I The 1990 Census of Population and Housing
READINGS
Lecture 3
U.S. Census Bureau. "Introduction to 1990 Census Products." U.S. Census Bureau. "Census '90 Basics."
Tools to extract census data Using census data: normalization, comparisons over time Introduction To Relational Databases, Part I Introduction to the relational model Intermediate queries: aggregation functions (grouping), multi-table queries Build and run queries on survey data and urban management records Making Sense Of The Census, Part II The 1990 Census of
Lecture 4
Trimble, J. Harvey and David Chappell. Introducing SQL. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1989. ISBN: 0471616842. (read Chapter 1, pp. 74104, 124-137 of A Visual Introduction to SQL)
Lab C
Lecture 5
Hutchinson and Daniel, Chapter 6: "Data Queries," and pp. 78-81 ("Joining Tables," "Joining vs. Link")
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TOPICS Population and Housing Tools to extract census data Using census data: normalization, comparisons over time Extracting Census data from STF files Principles Of Relational Databases, Part II Problem Set handed out prior day. Elements of database design
READINGS
Lab D
Lecture 6
The relational model of data including "One-to-many" relationships among data tables Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL) NSDI: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure Database Management In Planning Ferreira, J. "Informating the Dialogue between Public Agencies and Low-Income Communities." Ferreira, J. "Information Technologies that Change Relationships Between Low-income Communities and the Public and Non-Profit Agencies that Serve Them." In High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information
Lecture 7
An overview of planning uses of database management, both now and in the future.
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READINGS Technology, eds. Donald A. Schn, Bish Sanyal, and William J. Mitchell. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.
Lab E
Lab session emphasizing Census data and applying the relational model Preparing Effective Maps Hutchinson and Daniel, Chapter 5: "Displaying Data." Wood, D. "Are Maps Sending Society in the Wrong Direction?" (1993). Monmonier, M. "Data Maps: Making Nonsense of the Census." Chapter 9 of How to Lie with Maps.
Lecture 8
Lab F
Enhancing the accuracy, clarity and persuasiveness of the map Spatial Analysis And Internet Overview The NCGIA Core Curriculum: NCGIA Core Curriculum in GISci Marble, D. "The Potential Methodological Impact of Geographical Information Systems." (1990). Levine J., and Landis, J. "Geographic Information Systems for Local Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association (Spring 1989): 209-220.
Lecture 9
Introduction to Internet and GIS mapping resources Web mapping resources Integrating orthophotos with census data Exhibition Of Planning Software And PSS Research Demonstrations of software tools for mapping and spatial analysis
Lab G
Project Demo
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READINGS
Lecture 10
Introduction to geographical information systems and course summary Drucker, P.F. "Drucker on Management: Be Data Literate -- Know What to Know." Wall Street Journal, December 1, 1992. Harris, B. "Beyond Geographic Information Systems: Computers and the Planning Professional." Journal of the American Planning Association (1989): 55, 85-90. Zuboff, S. "Informate the Enterprise: an Agenda for the 21st Century." National Forum(1991).
Panel Discussion