GIS and Housing

ISBN-13: 9780367197339 / Twarda / 2023 / 242 str.

Deborah De Leon Rojas

Opis

GIS and Housing: Principles and Practices discusses how GIS can enhance our understanding of complex housing issues in the United States and explains housing data analysis and the technical aspects of GIS management and functionality. Further, it explains how to integrate spatial thinking to address housing policy questions.

Recenzje

Silos keep advocates, philanthropy, and government from pursuing housing and development policies that meet the needs of historically disadvantaged communities in Black and Latinx neighborhoods. GIS for Housing offers advocates and policy makers a spatial analysis framework to guide the development of a just and equitable city for all.

Maria Cabildo

Director, Housing and Economic Opportunity, California Community Foundation

 

 

In development, all markets are local. Other words, know and understand the location before undertaking development. If you don’t understand location, money will be lost. Location is geographic. The authors of GIS and Housing explain the importance of geographic data related to location. Geographic data is not only physical, (what physically is at that location and surrounding areas) but cultural (who’s there; explaining population and its attributes). Developers need that information.

Scott Lefaver

Owner/Managing Member, Cabouchon Properties, LLC

 

 

This book explores both the evolution and current state of housing issues, such as availability and affordability and offers important guidance on why an understanding of spatial relationships is vital when developing strategies for mitigating these concerns.   The authors explore the capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS) concepts, tools, and methods and how they can be leveraged to manage, analyze, visualize, and communicate actionable knowledge that supports decision making and policies related to housing.  This book is a valuable resource for housing researchers, analysts, and policymakers.

Kevin Mickey

Director, Professional Development and Geospatial Technologies Education, The Polis Center

 

 

The authors supply a critical missing angle in America’s fractious national and local debates about housing: visual data. Through detailed graphs and charts interspersed with historical photos and maps, they elegantly capture historic changes in how we live, where we live, who we live with, in how much space, and how much it costs -- and also explain how we may use this information to decide how to live in the future.

Nicole Gelinas

Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

 

GIS and Housing is a highly-readable, solutions-oriented book that uses a geo-spatial lens to grapple with the connections between US housing crises and broader socio-economic trends. Further, it encourages the use of GIS as a tool for housing data analysis and meaningful community engagement in policy development and implementation

Oksana Mironova

Senior Policy Analyst, Community Service Society of New York

Spis treści

1. Why Geography Matters in Housing  2. Social, Demographic, and Technological Shifts and their Impacts on Housing  3. Contemporary Design Adaptations and Policy Interventions  4. Data for Housing Research  5. GIS Analysis and Visualization  6. Directions for Future Research  7. Conclusions

O autorze

Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Ph.D, AICP, is a professor of urban planning with extensive experience in using GIS concepts and tools to facilitate community-based planning and policymaking. She currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at San José State University. She was the first urban planner to serve as the President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, UCGIS from 2012 to 2014 and currently serves as the President of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). She served as a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) from 2016 to 2018 representing academia. The NGAC is a federal committee that provides advice and recommendations on national geospatial policy and management issues. Laxmi previously authored GIS and Public Participation (2010). 

 

Dr. Jochen Albrecht, GISP, is a professor of Computational and Theoretical Geography at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS, (2007) and co-author of Essential Methods for Planning Practitioners, (2018) with Dr. Ramasubramanian. In addition, Dr. Albrecht published over 60 refereed articles and conference proceedings and received the national GIS Educator of the Year award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). He served on the Board of Directors of several professional organizations and is currently the President of the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI).

 

Deborah Rojas De Leon, RA is a licensed architect in New York.  She is the owner and founder of Rojas AP, an architecture and planning firm in Jamaica, Queens.  Over the past decade, her work has been dedicated to enhancing the quality of neighborhoods through architecture and urban planning.  She consistently seeks out opportunities to collaborate with local community organizations and stakeholders, ensuring that her projects reflect the unique needs and aspirations of the people she serves. Deborah continually works towards a more equitable and harmonious urban landscape for all.  She teaches Graphic Communication at Hunter College in the Urban Planning and Policy master program where she empowers future planners to effectively share their spatial stories, enhancing their ability to communicate effectively.