M.I.T. Department of Urban Studies and Planning -- Fall, 2015

11.522 Research Seminar on Urban Information Systems

Course Description

References and Online Resources

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Initial Resources for this Fall's UIS topics related to the Responsive City theme

[Note: Some of these web links are not world readable so browser access is 'forbidden.' Restricted access materials are available on the class Stellar site: https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/11/fa15/11.522/index.html Alternatively, to access them, you need to be on the 11.522 mailing list and use your MIT email ID together with OpenAFS or sftp. Note that http://mit.edu/11.522/www/ is the same location as: \\afs\athena.mit.edu\course\11\11.522\www )

Recent JAPA articles on smart growth, urban models, and sustainable development strategies

JAPA, Vol. 78:1 (2012), Special Issue: Sprawl and Smart Growth

• Timothy S. Chapin, "Introduction," pp 5-15
• Amnon Frenkel & Daniel E. Orenstein, "Can Urban Growth Management Work in an Era of Political and Economic Change?: International Lessons From Israel ", pp 16-33.
• Elisa Barbour & Elizabeth A. Deakin, "Smart Growth Planning for Climate Protection: Evaluating California's Senate Bill 375," pp 70-86.

JAPA, Vol. 78:2 (2012):

• Marcial H. Echenique, Anthony J. Hargreaves, Gordon Mitchell & Anil Namdeo, "Growing Cities Sustainably: Does Urban Form Really Matter?", pp 121-137.
• Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, Qingyun Shen& Qing Shen, "Does Accessibility Require Density or Speed?: A Comparison of Fast Versus Close in Getting Where You Want to Go in U.S. Metropolitan Regions," pp 157-172.

PLANET listserve discussion of urban modeling and planning methods in response to the Echenique, et al. paper

• Threaded email discussion rolled up into one PDF file: acsp_urbanmodels_on_planet2012.pdf

Recent UIS theses

• Fabio Carrera's PhD dissertation (Sept. 2004): CITY KNOWLEDGE: An Emergent Information Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Maintenance, Management and Planning
• Raj Singh's PhD dissertation (Sept. 2004): Collaborative Urban Information Systems: A Web Services Approach
• Chris Hodges' MCP dissertation (June, 2004): "Fostering Land Use Planning Dialogue: Community Preservation as Growth Management Strategy in Massachusetts"
• Jiawen Yang's PhD dissertation (June, 2005): "The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Commuting: Examining the Impacts of Urban Growth Patterns, 1980-2000"
• Jinhua Zhao's PhD dissertation (Sept. 2009): "Preference Accommodating and Preference Shaping: Incorporating Traveler Preferences into Transportation Planning"
• Mi Diao's PhD dissertation (Sept. 2010) -" Sustainable Metropolitan Growth Strategies: Exploring the Role of the Built Environment"
• Yang Chen's PhD dissertation (Sept. 2012) - Neighborhood Design and the Energy Efficiency of Urban Lifestyle in China: Treating Residence and Mobility as Lifestyle Bundle
• Rob Goodspeed's PhD dissertation (June 2013) - Planning Support Systems for Spatial Planning Through Social Learning
• Yi Zhu's PhD dissertation (Sept. 2014) - Spatiotemporal Learning and Geo-visualization methods for Constructing Activity-travel Patterns from Transit Card Transaction Data
• Weifeng Li's PhD dissertation (Feb. 2015) - Planning for Land-use and Transportation Alternatives: Towards Household Activity-based Urban Modeling for Sustainable Futures

Recent UIS-related General Exam Proposals (with useful bibliographies)

• Rob Goodspeed (2011)
  • Field I: Urban Information Systems
  • Field II: Democratic Land Use Planning
• Jingsi Xu (2012)
  • Field I: Regional and Urban Economics
  • Field II: Urban Information Systems for Transportation Planning
• Roberto Ponce Lopez (2014)
  • Field I: Urban Information Systems
  • Field II: Spatial Inequality and Uneven Development

Useful Journals & Resources for UIS

• Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
• Environment & Planning, B
• Journal of the American Planning Association
• Journal of Planning Education and Research
• International Journal of Geographic Information Systems
• Transactions in GIS
• URISA Journal
• TRB Transportation Research Board

• Online access to journals:
  • MIT Libraries: Vera Database
  • ScienceDirect
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Library of Congress: American Memory

• GIS and Planning Technology firms and resources
  • Local MassGIS and MIT spinoff: Applied Geographics, Inc.
  • U Penn spinoff: Acavea
  • PlaceMatters
  • 'INDEX' software for urban design performance evaluation: Criterion Planners
  • PlaceWays modeling tools: Community Viz
  • ESRI (ArcGIS) Newsletter
  • Google Maps application programming interfaces (APIs)
  • Urban Institute website for National Neighborhood Indicator Partnership (NNIP): http://www.urbaninstitute.org/nnip/
  • Geospatial interoperability standards and best practices: Open Geospatial Consortium
  • Federal website for open government data (including geospatial data): Data.Gov
  • Global Earth Observation System of Systems: GEOSS
  • MIT SENSEable City Lab: http://senseable.mit.edu

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