This introduction to urban planning applications and problem solving with CIS 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. Technical jargon is minimized while the analytical concepts are fully described, enabling full use and understanding of GIS techniques. Infused in the included laboratory exercises are real-world activities that are often required in urban GIS projects but rarely included in prepared lab work, such as data acquisition, integrating data into the GIS, and manipulation of real data. Project design and analysis methodologies are also demonstrated with real-life examples of urban GIS projects.
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Juliana Maantay is an associate professor of environmental and urban geography at City University of New York Lehman College's department of geology and geography and is a research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) cooperative center for remote sensing science and technology (CREST). Her work has been published in major journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Projections: The Planning Journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Planners Network. She lives in New York City. John Ziegler is the founder and president of Space Track Inc., a GIS consulting company. He has worked with government, nonprofit, and private sector organizations and has overseen the development of Space Track's own municipal GIS applications. He was a part of the disaster response team that worked with New York City's office of emergency management in the weeks following the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, using GIS to produce mapping for emergency responders. He lives in New York City.
JOHN PICKLES is Earl N. Distinguished Chair of International Studies in the Department of Geography and ROBERT M. JENKINS is Director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, both at the University of North Carolina.
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This is truly a wonderful book. Although I plan on using it as a text book for some of the courses which I teach, it is also a fantastic reference and refresher for even experienced geographers. To my knowledge, it is the most complete and well written book dealing with GIS in an urban setting. The text is clear and simple without being simplistic, the labs are well designed and do a good job putting theory into practice, and the case studies are varied and interesting. Kudos to Maantay and Zeigler for writing what is sure to become the indispensable Urban GIS text.
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The book is chocked full of great reference material a text book that will make the transition to reference book as soon as your class ends. I purchased it for a class and plan to keep it. It is not a book that teaches you how to use ArcMap, but helps you to think through things like themes, setting scales, deciding projection systems, etc.
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For years I have been looking for the perfect text book for GIS and Urban Planning and I have finally found it. This text book creates a solid foundation for Urban Planners who want to learn GIS.
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- Geographic Information Systems: Socioeconomic Applications by David Martin on page 245, page 264, and page 314
- The Urban Environment by John Fien A. Andrews on page 178, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Power of Maps by Denis Wood on page 23, page 286, and page 290
- How to Lie with Maps (2nd Edition) by Mark Monmonier on page 91, and page 290
- Computer Graphics by Acm Press on page 155, and page 314
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