1. Introduction
2. Why GIS and planning for the built environment
3. GIS: a spatial database of our world
4. The currency of GIS
5. Geovisualization: Communicating with spatial data
6. Mapping and the built environment: some guidance
7. ‘Everything is related to everything else’: Understanding spatial analysis
8. Network problems and how to solve them
9. Decision making using GIS: Bringing it all together.
Ed Ferrari is Director of the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University.
Alasdair Rae is a Professor at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield.