Final Projects Page
Students in Urban Planning 507, Geographic Information Systems,
College of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Michigan


Name and e-mail link
(where noted, by asterisk, use Internet Explorer to view site)
Program Topic and link to project Special mapping features (partial listing, only--one must look at the full site to see what is there!)
Eun-Young Kim College of Architecture and Urban Planning, UTEP, Ph.D. program Bus Stops and Bus Users in the City of Detroit 

Link in Solstice.

  • Interactive internet map; Over 50,000 files--not all may be active all of the time 
  • Clickable map;
  • Aerial photos;
  • Field photos;
  • Field interview results from (Prof. R. Marans, CAUP/UM).
  • Brendan Cousino College of Engineering, Masters program Mill Creek Watershed:  GIS Modeling
  • Interactive internet map;
  • Hydraulic connection map;
  • Universal Soil Loss equation and model
  • Work with client, HRWC, Elizabeth Riggs.
  • Hyeyun Lee College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Masters of Urban Planning program The Relationship between Bicycle Accidents and Lanes of Travel at Downtown Ann Arbor Intersections

    Link in Solstice

  • Interactive internet map;
  • Animated map;
  • Accumulated historical field evidence;
  • Interview results (Prof. J. Nystuen, CAUP/UM);
  • Significance testing;
  • Work with client, Matthew Naud, City of Ann Arbor, Environmental Coordinator.
  • Matthew Gamache College of Engineering, Masters program Field Test Site - Pall Gelman Sciences
  • Animated maps;
  • Field maps;
  • Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs);
  • Interpolation analysis;
  • Interview results.
  • Makoto Noguchi College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Masters of Urban Planning program The Possibility of Extending Streetcar Line in Kagoshima City, Japan

    Link in Solstice

  • Animated maps; 
  • Hand-digitized original maps;
  • Field evidence
  • Volume of flow map in the style of Napoleonic map
  • Jeanine Chura School of Public Health, Masters program Beach Closures in Oakland County, Michigan:  Using GIS as an Investigative Tool

    Link in Solstice

  • Animated maps
  • Interpolation consideration
  • Field evidence
  • Intern experience, Oakland County
  • Latika Bhide College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Masters of Urban Planning program A Project to study - 'SpeedLink' 
    A Rapid Transit Option for Greater Detroit
  • Creative use of centroid in selecting spatial units;
  • Field survey results;
  • Onscreen digitizing;
  • Rituraj Sharma* College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Masters of Urban Planning program Racial Segregation and Community Open Spaces:  A Study of Wayne County
  • Creative use of centroid in selecting spatial units
  • Use of Flash and other display software
  • Kishi Animashaun School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ph.D. Precandidate Methods of Determining Disproportionate Impact Using Geographic Information Systems
  • Creative use of centroid in selecting spatial units;
  • Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs);
  • Substantial data management issues
  • Sharon Pronchik College of Engineering, Masters program Change Detection Analysis
  • Satellite images;
  • Raster analysis;
  • Image change;
  • Substantial data management issues.
  • Jie Kang College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Masters of Urban Planning program Forthcoming a
    Shu Zhangz College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Masters of Urban Planning program Forthcoming a
    Ellen Karpiuk  School of Education, Masters and Certificate (MAC)  program A Virtual Tour of Paris--with a Gopher's Eye View (under construction)
  • Clickable map
  • Use of foreign language


  • mail me:  sarhaus@umich.edu