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Spatial Thinking in Planning Practice An Introduction to GIS Yiping Fang

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Open textbook libraryDistributor: Minneapolis, MN Open Textbook LibraryPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] Portland State University Library [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781312778986
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA76
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter 1: Defining a Geographic Information System -- Chapter 2: Coordinate Systems and Projecting GIS Data -- Chapter 3: Topology and Creating Data -- Chapter 4: Mapping People with Census Data -- Chapter 5: Lying with Maps -- Chapter 6: To Standardize or Not to Standardize? -- Chapter 7: Geographic Considerations in Planning Practice. -- Chapter 8: Manipulating GIS Data -- Chapter 9: Raster Data Models -- Chapter 10: The Future of GIS
Subject: The goals of this textbook are to help students acquire the technical skills of using software and managing a database, and develop research skills of collecting data, analyzing information and presenting results. We emphasize that the need to investigate the potential and practicality of GIS technologies in a typical planning setting and evaluate its possible applications. GIS may not be necessary (or useful) for every planning application, and we anticipate these readings to provide the necessary foundation for discerning its appropriate use. Therefore, this textbook attempts to facilitate spatial thinking focusing more on open-ended planning questions, which require judgment and exploration, while developing the analytical capacity for understanding a variety of local and regional planning challenges. While this textbook provides the background for understanding the concepts in GIS as applicable to urban and regional planning, it is best when accompanied by a hands-on tutorial, which will enable readers to develop an in-depth understanding of the specific planning applications of GIS. In the end of each chapter, we also provided several discussion questions, together with contextual applications through some web links.
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Chapter 1: Defining a Geographic Information System -- Chapter 2: Coordinate Systems and Projecting GIS Data -- Chapter 3: Topology and Creating Data -- Chapter 4: Mapping People with Census Data -- Chapter 5: Lying with Maps -- Chapter 6: To Standardize or Not to Standardize? -- Chapter 7: Geographic Considerations in Planning Practice. -- Chapter 8: Manipulating GIS Data -- Chapter 9: Raster Data Models -- Chapter 10: The Future of GIS

The goals of this textbook are to help students acquire the technical skills of using software and managing a database, and develop research skills of collecting data, analyzing information and presenting results. We emphasize that the need to investigate the potential and practicality of GIS technologies in a typical planning setting and evaluate its possible applications. GIS may not be necessary (or useful) for every planning application, and we anticipate these readings to provide the necessary foundation for discerning its appropriate use. Therefore, this textbook attempts to facilitate spatial thinking focusing more on open-ended planning questions, which require judgment and exploration, while developing the analytical capacity for understanding a variety of local and regional planning challenges. While this textbook provides the background for understanding the concepts in GIS as applicable to urban and regional planning, it is best when accompanied by a hands-on tutorial, which will enable readers to develop an in-depth understanding of the specific planning applications of GIS. In the end of each chapter, we also provided several discussion questions, together with contextual applications through some web links.

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