Résumé
GIS for the Urban Environment focuses on the use of GIS in urban planning and problem solving, and is aimed at both large and small cities and metropolitan areas. It will be of interest to all students and practitioners who want to learn more about how they might apply GIS to their daily practices, be they in urban planning, public health, urban environmental assessment, hazard and emergency management, geographical analysis, or sustainable community development. It will become an essential text when setting out on what the authors call "the GIS adventure."
The book includes twelve chapters that introduce the elements and issues involved in using GIS, and it does so with a wide range of useful maps and illustrations. Each chapter in part I provides readers with a carefully chosen set of further readings, along with written exercises, and in part III, laboratory exercises. Students and practitioners will enjoy working through the individual chapters and exercises, and will find the twelve case studies of part II to be particularly valuable. The exercises and case studies present clear illustrations of GIS use across a wide range of contexts, providing readers with explicit examples of actual applications dealing with important issues in contemporary cities and urban regions. The authors have been able to link a rigorous presentation of GIS tools and approaches with a comprehensive text that is accessible, clearly written, and interesting to read, and with exercises to help students and practitioners learn and develop their skills and applications.
Required software: ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo 9 is required to complete the exercises in this book. Earlier software releases are not compatible. The CD-ROM included with this book contains the data used in the exercises.
L'auteur - Juliana Maantay
Juliana Maantay is a professor at Lehman College, City University of New York, where she teaches GISc and environmental geography, and also directs the GIS program. She was formerly an environmental analyst and urban planner with the City of New York, and held senior planning positions in the private sector before that. She is a leading authority on community-based participatory GIS and environmental health and justice research using GIS.
L'auteur - John Ziegler
John Ziegler is the founder and president of Space Track Inc., a New York City GIS consulting company founded in 1988. Previously, he was the New York regional director of the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) and deputy regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). From 1989 to 2001, he taught urban planning and GIS as an adjunct professor at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Sommaire
- Part 1
- Basics of Mapping and GIS
- Modeling Spatial Data and Basic Mapping Concepts
- Thematic Mapping
- Data Classification Methods and Data Exploration
- Data Visualization and Map Design
- Sources of Urban Data
- Mapping Databases
- Attribute Data and Relational Database Management Systems
- Methods of Spatial Data Analysis
- GIS Project Development and Institutional Issues
- Ethical Issues in GIS and Urban Planning
- Other Geotechnologies and Recent Developments in GIS
- Part 2
- Case Study One: Nonprofit Organization GIS Strategic Planning and Public Outreach
- Case Study Two: GIS Use by Urban Nonprofit Organizations for Housing Initiatives and Urban Services
- Case Study Three: Delivering Healthcare Services to an Urban Population
- Case Study Four: Natural Habitat and Open Space Assessment
- Case Study Five: Urban Environmental Planning
- Case Study Six: Emergency Management and Disaster Response
- Case Study Seven: Infrastructure Mapping for Planning and Maintenance
- Case Study Eight: Archaeology and Historic Preservation with GIS
- Case Study Nine: Health and Environmental Justice
- Case Study Ten: Crime Pattern Analysis
- Case Study Eleven: Community-based Planning
- Case Study Twelve: Advocacy Planning and Public Information
- Part 3
- Lab Exercise One: Making Maps of Urban Data
- Lab Exercise Two: Exploring Basic GIS Functionality
- Lab Exercise Three: Thematic Mapping: Dot Density Maps
- Lab Exercise Four: Thematic Mapping: Choropleth Maps
- Lab Exercise Five: Integrating Graphs and Maps, and Designing Map Layouts
- Lab Exercise Six: Developing an Attribute Database from an Internet Source
- Lab Exercise Seven: Geocoding and Labeling
- Lab Exercise Eight: Working with Relational Databases
- Lab Exercise Nine: Generating Buffers and Using Selection for Proximity Analysis
- Lab Exercise Ten: Geoprocessing Operations and Joining Tables
- Lab Exercise Eleven: Data Exploration and Geostatistical Analysis
- Lab Exercise Twelve: Advanced Layout Techniques
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | ESRI Press |
| Auteur(s) | Juliana Maantay, John Ziegler |
| Parution | 02/11/2006 |
| Nb. de pages | 600 |
| Format | 22 x 25 |
| Couverture | Relié |
| Poids | 2170g |
| Intérieur | Quadri |
| EAN13 | 9781589480827 |
| ISBN13 | 978-1-58948-082-7 |
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