M.I.T. Department of Urban Studies and Planning -- Fall, 2009

11.522 Research Seminar on Urban Information Systems

Course Description


References and Online Resources


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

 

Open Geospatial Consortium

Federal geodata portal: Geospatial Onestop

ESRI (ArcGIS) Newsletter

IDRISI software from Clark Labs

Local Planning Technology firms: Applied Geographics, Inc. and Traverse Technologies, Inc.

Bill Mitchell's book on 21st-century Communications for Communities: "Etopia: Urban Life, Jim, but not as We Know It "

Mike Flaxman's Fall 2007 class on "Simulating Sustainable Futures"

The MIT/Brookings/MAPC project description (April 2004): "Intelligent Middleware for Understanding Neighborhood Markets" and website: http://uis.mit.edu

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"

SENSEable City Lab website: http://senseable.mit.edu

Urban Institute website for National Neighborhood Indicator Partnership (NNIP): http://www.urbaninstitute.org/nnip/

PlaceMatters Conference

'INDEX' software for urban design performance evaluation: Criterion Planners

PlaceWays modeling tools: Community Viz

 


Useful Journals & Resources for UIS

Environment & Planning, B

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

International Journal of Geographic Information Systems

Transactions in GIS

URISA Journal


Alexandria Digital Library
NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS

Related Resources

TRB Transportation Research Board

MIT Libraries: Vera Database

ScienceDirect

ACM Digital Library

Library of Congress: American Memory

MIT Libraries


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