Geographic information science and public participation

✍ Scribed by Laxmi Ramasubramanian (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Series: Advances in Geographic Information Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book argues that many positive planning and policy outcomes can result when GIS experts and community organizers work together to address problems affecting our neighborhoods and cities. This book is written by an author who, in addition to being an academic, has worked for twenty years in the grassroots, designing and implementing a wide range of community-oriented GIS activities. The book is both an account of personal experiences, as well as an academic reflection of professional practice. The case studies are drawn from multiple scales and represent stake holders covering a wide swath of actors. For practitioners, the book will help to place their own experiences into a historical and socio-political context and will provide guidance for their work. For students, it looks behind the scenes of glossy PPGIS reports usually found in the literature. For policymakers, it highlights the pathways to facilitate social change through consensus building. This book provides clarity about terminologies and definitions. It provides practical guidelines for policymakers seeking to implement consensus-building approaches that are supported by GIS and other digital tools.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Dilemmas in Contemporary Planning....Pages 3-17
The Digital Revolution....Pages 19-32
Dilemmas in Contemporary Planning....Pages 33-48
PPGIS: State of the Practice....Pages 49-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Politics and Participation in Boston’s South End....Pages 77-85
Planning to Preserve Community Character in Oak Park, Illinois....Pages 87-104
Chicagoland’s Search for Common Ground....Pages 105-118
Evaluation....Pages 119-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
PPGIS as Critical Reflective Practice....Pages 135-149
Where to, from Here?....Pages 151-155
Back Matter....Pages 157-172

✦ Subjects

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Computer Applications in Earth Sciences; Cities, Countries, Regions; Geography (general)