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Research Seminar on Urban Information Systems
Advanced research seminar enhances computer and analytic skills developed in other subjects in this sequence. Students present a structured discussion of journal articles representative of their current research interests involving urban information systems and complete a short research project. Suggested research projects include topics related to ongoing UIS Group research.
Fall 2005
Topics
- Introduction and Organizing Class Presentations
- City Knowledge: An Emergent Information Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Maintenance, Management and Planning - Joe Ferreira and Fabio Carrera
- Sharing Data and Empowering Communities - Fabio Carrera and Joe Ferreira
- Information Infrastructure and the Redevelopment of Inner Cities - Mi Diao
- Application of Cartograms in Measuring Sprawl - Xiongjiu Liao
- Land Market Monitoring for Growth Management - Weifeng Li
- The Role of GIS in Delivering Municipal Public Services - Fazilet Tanrikulu
- Danxia Xie
- Project Work
- Final Project Presentations (Part I)
- Final Project Presentations (Part II)
Readings
- Singh, Raj. “Collaborative Urban Information Systems: A Web Services Approach.” Chapter 1 of Dissertation . MIT, 2004.
- Porter, Michael E. “New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development.” Economic Development Quarterly 11, no. 1 (February 1997). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Periodicals Press.
- Hoyt, Lorleen. “Planning through Compulsory Commercial Clubs: Business Improvement Districts.” Economic Affairs 25, no. 4 (2005).
- Literature on the Information Infrastructure that may Help in the Redevelopment of Inner Cities
- Grodon, Peter, and Harry Richardson. “Are compact cities a desirable planning goal?” Journal of the American Planning Association 63, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 95, 12.
- Galster, G., R. Hanson, M. Ratcliffe, H. Wolman, S. Coleman, and J. Freihage. “Wrestling Sprawl to the ground: Defining and measuring an elusive concept.” Housing Policy Debate 12 (2001): 681-718.
- Tobler, Waldo. “Thirty Five Years of Computer Cartograms.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94, no. 1 (2004): 58-73.
- Difference Approaches of Land Market Monitoring Practice Inventory Approach:
- Waddell, Paul. “Monitoring and Simulating Land Capacity at the Parcel Level.” In Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems: Theory, Practice and Parcel-Based Approaches. Edited by A. Vernez-Moudon and M. Hubner. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. ISBN: 0471371637.
- Landis, John. “Characterizing Urban Land Capacity: Alternative Approaches and Methodologies.” In Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth . Edited by Gerrit Knaap. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2002. ISBN: 155844145X.
- Jacoby, S., J. Smith, L. Ting, and I. Williamson. “Developing a common spatial data infrastructure between state and local government - An Australian case study.” International Journal of Geographic Information Science 16, no. 4 (2002): 305-322.
- Longley, P. “Geographic information systems: A renaissance of geodemographics for public service delivery.” Progress in Human Geography 29, no. 1 (2005): 57-63.
- Maguire, D. J., and P. A. Longley. “The emergence of geoportals and their role in spatial data infrastructures.” Computers Environment and Urban Systems 29 (2005): 3-14.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department 2-4-6 units Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2005
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.