WINTER, 2001.
UP507--Prerequisite: UP406 or permission
of instructor (that is, previous experience using GIS software)
Urban Planning 680/028
Lecture: T: 8:30-10:30 a.m., 2216, A&A
Lab: W: 4:00-6:30 p.m. A&A lab.
Office Hours in A&A1235
A&A: T: 10:30-2:30
W: noon-3:30
Others by arrangement, possibly at research office
at Community Systems Foundation, 1130 Hill Street (761-1358).
Professor: Sandy Arlinghaus
sarhaus@umich.edu
(preferred method of contact)
975-0246 (home phone)
LINKS AND OTHER MATERIAL of possible interest:
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http://ecolu-info.unige.ch/~haurie/mutate/Mutate-web-page/
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http://hudemaps2.esri.com/SearchFrame.asp
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PDF
for SEMCOG soil map
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PDF
for SEMCOG flood-prone areas
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Legend for SEMCOG sewer maps:
1a - sewered by 1980 or by 1990 if within 1b
area
1b - planned by 1980
1c - sewered by 1994 within 1b or 3 areas
1d - planned by 1994 within 1a or 1b areas
2 - sewered by 1990
2b - sewered by 1994 within 4 or not designated
areas
3 - health problems by 1990
3b - health problems by 1994
4 - planned by 1990
4b - planned by 1994
5 - not designated
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Cities with neighborhood information systems of the
general size of Ann Arbor
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htmail:
instructions for creating feedback forms.
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Detroit group
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City of Detroit website: http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us
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Fabulous Ruins of
Detroit
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Syntax, DOS, for conversion from ArcView to MapInfo--sample.
cd\esri\av_gis30\arcview\bin32>shapedxf c:\semcog\gwowei\wayuse95
c:\mapinfo\wayusecad 5
The numeral 5 in the last line refers to the number
of decimal places. Then, go to MapInfo and Import this table; then
open it up. We may be able to align images using the various options
that popup when opening the cad file.
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Map files as requested:
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Streets and highways, landuse (90 and 95), parks,
rivers and water sheds, railroads, bus routes and stops, airports, and
impervious surface, all as one set that align.
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Parcel map, rails, freeways, historic districts,
boundary of Detroit, and street centerline as another set that align.
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Point sources of pollution--attached
website. See raster images in .pdfs.
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Other CDs available:
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Maps of Ann Arbor
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Maps of Michigan including a set of self-contained
files on Sleeping Bear Dunes
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Maps of Peru
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Good general map source is the Perry-Castaneda map
library at the University of Texas at Austin; these static electronic maps
can be captured and used as backdrop behind an ArcView map and then digitized
using Register It, on screen. Get Register It at the site below.
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There are numerous other sources of maps available
on the web--Marc Schlossberg has assembled a fine set of resources--try
his page.
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There will be software in my (SA) ifs space from
time to time; you can gain access to the Public part of the ifs space of
anyone else at UM--I'll show you how, if you want. (I do not wish
to put this information on the web).
EVALUATION:
Regular attendance at lecture and lab and regular, frequent posting of
website material is a good idea.
Middle
of term:
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Give formal brief oral presentation: 10% of grade;
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web site progress evaluation, 15% of grade.
End of
term:
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Formal brief oral presentation: 25% of
grade.
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Day of scheduled final, Final project (term paper
length and quality) as a website is due by 5 p.m.: Final project--:
50% of grade.
The formal oral presentations are designed to give
students experience in a friendly setting of the kinds of constraints they
will meet when presenting papers at professional meetings. Students
who attend lecture and lab tend to have better success in presentations
and website development than those who do not; students who post material
frequently on their websites, for feedback, also tend to have better success.
The final project may be work on a group project, a chapter in a thesis,
or other selected in consultation with the instructor. Final project
must be built as a website. Instructor is quite willing to help individuals
needing it with help in website development.
Instructor will provide on-going individualized feedback on student
websites.
COURSE MATERIALS:
Required:
an active U of M e-mail account
Required: a website
(to be built throughout the course)
Required: as many
Zip disks or blank CDs as needed to hold files.
Required: willingness
to expand IFS space if needed to hold files.
There will be a class website containing lecture notes, links to source
materials on the web, citations to printed matter that might be useful,
and strategies that might be of use in the lab.
COURSE STRUCTURE:
Lecture will center on theoretical and conceptual
material. Lab will center on project development. There may
also be some guest speakers during Lecture; they will offer different insights
into mapping. Click here
to see a broad view of GIS software acquisition strategy. Some of the broad
general concepts to be considered include (but are not limited to):
scale, centrality, hierarchy, density, transformation, distance,
orientation, geodesic, minimization, connection, adjacency
HINTS:
<img src="http://wwwcgi.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/
counter?link=http:www-personal.umich.edu/~sarhaus">
will enable you to put a counter on your UM website. Substitute
your UniqName for sarhaus.
Alt+printscreen is the Windows-universal
command to capture the entire screen on the Clipboard--then paste it into
a word processor to write documentation for software or into a browser
to create online documentation (or paste it anywhere else--you can even
keep a copy of the current pattern of icons on your desktop in this way).
Also use to get good images from ArcView when the export facility is inadequate.
Copy (by highlighting the
URL in your browser) useful links (ctrl+c); paste them into a NotePad file
and save it. Then you can later copy and paste links easily on your
website or into another browser window without ever having to retype the
URL.
RESPONSE TO REQUESTS
Impervious surface maps:
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From SEMCOG data for Washtenaw county--highly
incomplete
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Backdrop
from map appearing in first phase of UM master planning effort
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Partial map made from that backdrop is underway--with City parcel map superimposed.
LINKS:
Neighborhood Infomation
Systems.
The power of the internet is with us on a daily basis; however, what
we see is (obviously?) only the tip of the iceberg. How can we make
better use of it, and the various software package available for mapping
and data analysis, in helping people to learn more about, and interact
with, their own local settings? The City of Ann Arbor maintains a
clickable map site of self-identified neighborhoods (R. Scaff, W. Rampson,
C. Hurd (and S. A.));
see the Planning Department portion of that website).
There have been a number of recent efforts to create Neighborhood
Information Systems
Catalogues to be used with maps.
Please make sure that Adobe Acrobat Reader is available to read these Portable
Document Files (pdf files).
REFERENCES:
Neighborhood Information
Systems and related topics.
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Danny Drouk, Bill Pitkin and Neal Richman, UCLA, Internet-based Neighborhood
Information Systems: A Comparative Analysis.
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Neal Richman and Jaron Waldman. Publicizing Privatized Information:
a New Role for University-Based Planners.
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Aspen Institute. The Tides of Nonprofit Management Reform:
More Research Needed in the Face of Increasing Pressure for Change.
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