rebuilding a city through community participation, neogeography and gis
DESCRIPTION
The City of New Orleans is undergoing fast, and often unchecked reformations. Following Hurricane Katrina, the citizens were forced to evaluate and rebuild. However, pulling together disparate sources of information, freeing government data, and understanding the situation was difficult.Individual organizations began to use readily available tools to capture and collect data. Flickr photos of historic buildings, online spreadsheets of demolition permits, collaborative mapping of citizens to discuss rebuilding neighborhoods and problem areas. Through a mixture of awareness, coworking sessions, and the applications of higher-level tools, the various groups were able to pull the geospatial information together for advanced analysis and community planning. This presentation will discuss the various emergent and coordinated processes that are used in the city to engage citizens and government. Through utilization of existing consumer services as well as lightweight geospatial tools and more complex GIS analysis the city is gaining understanding and the ability to move forward together.TRANSCRIPT
Rebuilding a City through Community, Neogeography, and GIS
Andrew TurnerFortiusOne - Mapufacture
[email protected]://highearthorbit.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxno/2414755413
Hurricanes Katrinaand Rita
Damage Awareness Hurricane Katrina
Crisis Reporting
Hurricane Katrina
Return to Normal
Return to Normal
Return to Normal
Gut
topophilia love of place
New Orleans
Green Dot Map
Where is my House? Green Dot Map
Where is my House? Green Dot Map
Prove Yourself Viable
Where is my House? Green Dot Map
By Green We Mean Bulldozer
Prove Yourself Viable
wrp.geothings.net Green Dot Map
Open Data Green Dot Map
Broadmoor Green Dot Map
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justanuptowngirl/2081416562/
Community Broadmoor
Blogs Broadmoor
Forums Broadmoor
Mid-City Green Dot Map
Community Mid-City
Wiki Mid-City
Flip that Neighborhood Mid-City
http://www.flickr.com/photos/culturesubculture/339185196/
Demolitions
Newspapers Demolitions
from Newspaper Listings
http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?tabid=118
to Spreadsheets
http://thinknola.com/permits/2008.htmlhttp://blogometer.com/post/editgrid-zero-to-six
to Maps
http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/01/13/google-maps/
to Blog Posts
http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/1431-annette/
to Flickr Photos
Brought Together Demolitions
Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894170436/
Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2893330201
Community Meetings Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894172926
Save our Schools
School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish
Regional-Modernism
School Facilities Master Plan
Geolocated Plans Save our Schools
Historic Photographs Save our Schools
Taylor’s 1924 Map
Taylor’s Map - Rectified
Scientifically Minded
Go Huey!
maps.thinknola.com Save our Schools
The Belfer Center’s Broadmoor ProjectFor New Orleans Community Engagement
NEW ORLEANS NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP FORUM SERIES
invites you to a
GIS Community MappingTraining Workshop
Mapping New Orleans Neighborhoods: Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis
A GIS Training Session Conducted by New Urban Research, Inc.
(An Add-on Session to the Leadership Forum event on Data Collection and Use
for Neighborhood Leaders)
Friday, November 2nd
(all day: 8:30 am till 4:30 pm)
Followed the next day, by the Data Gathering & Use Forum Event
on Saturday, November 3rd
8:30 am till 5:00 pm
Training arranged by: the Belfer Center’s Broadmoor Project
in conjunction with Bard College, the Broadmoor Improvement Association,
and the Broadmoor Development Corporation
Workshop Agenda
Lesson 1
Learn the basic functions of ArcGIS
Setting up ArcMap
Adding data and geography layers
Working with layouts
Lesson 2
Introduction to American Factfinder
Downloading Census and American Community Survey data to map
Downloading geography files including tracts, zip codes, blocks and others
Preparing Census tract data in Excel to import into ArcGIS
Lesson 3
Joining data and geography files
Creating thematic (color shaded) maps to display dataWorking with legends and interval breaks
Lesson 4
How to do common spatial queries
Lesson 5
Where to download free address data and other New Orleans and neighborhood specific data for Geocoding (address mapping)
Lesson 6
Elements of good maps including colors, fonts and map must havesCritique of several maps
This training course is conducted by New Urban Research, Inc., and is underwritten by The Belfer
Center’s Broadmoor Project, the Broadmoor Improvement Association, the Broadmoor
Development Corporation, and Bard College. The underwriters are providing access for New
Orleans neighborhood leaders to this training course conducted by New Urban Research, Inc. The
materials taught in the training do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Harvard
University, The Kennedy School of Government, The Belfer Center, or Bard College.GIS Workshops Community Mapping
GNODC Community Mapping
Spam as Populationhttp://www.gnocdc.org/repopulation/index.html
•! Urban Planning
•! Tangible Outcomes
City-Works
•! Histoirc Preservation
•! Archival Data
Tulane School of
Architecture •! Code base
•! Accessible GIS
Mapufacture
•! Public Safety
•! GIS Data
Orleans Parish
Communication District
•! Transparency
•! Next Questions
Collective
Journalism
!! State next steps. !! Report progress.
Velocity
•! Social Justice
•! Getting Things Done
Southern Institute
Next Actions
Public Library
•! Place based
•! Project oriented
Neighborhood
Coworking
Community Architecture
Historic Preservation
3 year anniversary
3 year anniversary
Postpon
ed
3 year anniversary
Storm Tracking Hurricane Gustav
Hurricane Gustav
http://maker.geocommons.com
Iterate
Public Data
http://finder.geocommons.com
HurricaneWiki
CrescentMaps.org
Hurricane Ike
Demolitions 2.0 not really funny
http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/map-all-demolition-permits-issued-post-gustav/
Demolitions 2.0http://flickr.com/photos/prc-advocacy/sets/72157607209781789/
Thank you [email protected]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48352971@N00/1588614122
Appreciation
• Thanks to:
• Alan Gutierrez (http://blogometer.com)
• Francine Stock (http://regional-modernism.com)
• Karen Gadbois (http://squanderedheritage.com)
• For their continual work in creating and connecting a community and allowing me to help. They also generated much of the materials used in this presentation.