Informating the Dialogue between Public Agencies and Low-Income Communities *

part of 11.208, Lecture 7, Jan. 21, 1999 -- Joseph Ferreira

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Decentralization benefits from making parcel-level data accessible

Boston Parcel Data 

Owners of multiple parcels

17 Spellings of BRA

Fixing the Spelling Problems

Complicating Factors

Storing Corrections in ‘Lookup Table’

Using the Lookup Table

Researching Land Use and Ownership Patterns

Exploiting the ‘Lookup table’ Idea

* Based on: Joseph Ferreira, "Informating the Dialogue between Public Agencies and Low-Income Communities," Chapter 7 in:  High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology, Edited by Donald A. Schön, Bish Sanyal, and William J. Mitchell, MIT Press, forthcoming 1998.