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Introduction to Computers in Public Management II

Graduate · Historical course

January IAP 2002

Topics

  • Building and printing a simple map from database tables and boundary files
  • Essential database operations: data input, simple queries, output.
  • Build and run queries on survey data and urban management records
  • Extracting Census data from STF files
  • Lab session emphasizing Census data and applying the relational model
  • Enhancing the accuracy, clarity and persuasiveness of the map
  • Integrating orthophotos with census data

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”)
    Listed reading
  • Monmonier, Mark S. How to Lie with Maps . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991. (read “Elements of the Map” and Chapter 2)
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Ferreira, J. “Spatial Patterns of Property Crimes and Socio-Economic Characteristics.” (1986).
    Listed reading
  • Ferreira, J. “Database Management Tools for Planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association 56, no. 1 (1990): 78-84.
    Listed reading
  • The 1990 Census of Population and Housing
    Listed reading
  • U.S. Census Bureau. “Introduction to 1990 Census Products.”
    Listed reading
  • Trimble, J. Harvey and David Chappell. Introducing SQL . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1989. ISBN: 0471616842. (read Chapter 1, pp. 74-104, 124-137 of A Visual Introduction to SQL)
    Listed reading
  • Hutchinson and Daniel, Chapter 6: “Data Queries,” and pp. 78-81 (“Joining Tables,” “Joining vs. Link”)
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press 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 Technology, eds. Donald A. Schön, Bish Sanyal, and William J. Mitchell. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262691994. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Hutchinson and Daniel, Chapter 5: “Displaying Data.”
    Listed reading
  • Wood, D. “Are Maps Sending Society in the Wrong Direction?” (1993).
    Listed reading
  • Monmonier, M. “Data Maps: Making Nonsense of the Census.” Chapter 9 of How to Lie with Maps .
    Listed reading
  • Marble, D. “The Potential Methodological Impact of Geographical Information Systems.” (1990).
    Listed reading
  • Levine J., and Landis, J. “Geographic Information Systems for Local Planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association (Spring 1989): 209-220.
    Listed reading
  • Drucker, P.F. “Drucker on Management: Be Data Literate – Know What to Know.” Wall Street Journal , December 1, 1992.
    Listed reading
  • Harris, B. “Beyond Geographic Information Systems: Computers and the Planning Professional.” Journal of the American Planning Association (1989): 55, 85-90.
    Listed reading
  • Zuboff, S. “Informate the Enterprise: an Agenda for the 21st Century.” National Forum (1991).
    Listed reading
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