Title GIS for housing and urban development / Committee on Review of Geographic Information Systems Research and Applications at HUD: Current Programs and Future Prospects, Committe on Geography, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 128 pages) Contents FRONT MATTER -- Contents -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 -- 1 INTRODUCTION 17 -- History and Role of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 17 -- HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research, 19 -- Geographic Data for Policy and Research at HUD, 19 -- GIS and a Changing America, 23 -- HUD and the Evolution of Urban Issues, 24 -- Study and Report, 27 -- 2 ENSURING THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, AND RELEVANCE OF URBAN AND HOUSING DATA 29 -- The Spatial Data Challenge, 29 -- Ensuring Data Accuracy and Relevance, 38 -- The Need for an Urban Data Infrastructure, 45 -- Summary, 49 3 DATA DISSEMINATION AND SOFTWARE TOOLS 51 -- HUD Data Users, 51 -- Data Dissemination, 58 -- HUD GIS Support Tools, 63 -- Summary, 67 -- 4 RESEARCH AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT 69 -- The Spatial Dimensions of Urban Poverty, 70 -- Monitoring Housing Market Conditions and Trends, 81 -- Priorities for Geographic Analysis of Urban and Housing Issues, 87 -- Summary, 92 -- 5 THE ROLE OF PARTNERSHIPS 93 -- Building Interagency Partnerships to Share Data, 94 -- HUD's Partners and Relationships, 95 -- Summary, 104 -- REFERENCES 107 -- APPENDIXES -- A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members 115 B Workshop Agenda and Participants 119 -- C List of Contributors 123 -- D Acronym List 127 Summary The report describes potential applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis by HUDs̉ Office of Policy Development and Research for understanding housing needs, addressing broader issues of urban poverty and community development, and improving access to information and services by the many users of HUDs̉ data. It offers a vision of HUD as an important player in providing urban data to federal initiatives towards a spatial data infrastructure for the nation Notes Also available on the Internet Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-111) Notes English Print version record Subject HUD USER (U.S.) SUBJECT HUD USER (U.S.) fast Subject Geographic information systems -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses Housing -- United States -- Information services -- Congresses City planning -- United States -- Information services -- Congresses City planning -- United States -- Electronic information resources -- Congresses Housing -- United States -- Electronic information resources -- Congresses Urban policy -- United States -- Congresses LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General. City planning -- Information services Geographic information systems -- Government policy Housing -- Information services Urban policy United States Genre/Form Electronic books proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book ISBN 0309507766 9780309507769

Other Titles Geographic Information Systems for housing and urban development

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