whatcountsforamerica.org
What We Talk About When We Talk About Data
http://www.whatcountsforamerica.org/whydata
King County, Washington. What We Talk About When We Talk About Data. 1 What is "data" in community development? 2 Where do data come from? What are the main types of data? 3 Why should program administrators and staff use data? 4 How does using data empower communities? 5 Aren't data used as a "gotcha" to point to programmatic failures or problems? 6 How can data support policymakers? 7 What role can community members play in data and research? 8 How can data promote collaboration and break down silos?
onemichigan.org
Data Driven Detroit » Portfolio
http://www.onemichigan.org/portfolio
Property, Land Use and Housing. Center for Urban Studies. Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD). Corporation for Skilled Work. Detroit Blight Removal Task Force. Detroit Department of Buildings, Safety, and Engineering (BSEED). Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion. Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT). Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC). Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation. Detroit Future City (DFC). Detroit General Services Department. Michigan State Housin...
onemichigan.net
Data Driven Detroit » Portfolio
http://www.onemichigan.net/portfolio
Property, Land Use and Housing. Center for Urban Studies. Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD). Corporation for Skilled Work. Detroit Blight Removal Task Force. Detroit Department of Buildings, Safety, and Engineering (BSEED). Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion. Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT). Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC). Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation. Detroit Future City (DFC). Detroit General Services Department. Michigan State Housin...
d-acis.org
Detroit Residential Parcel Survey - D-ACIS.org is now DataDrivenDetroit.org
http://www.d-acis.org/Home/parcelsurvey
D-ACIS.org is now DataDrivenDetroit.org. Data Driven Detroit (D3). Detroit Residential Parcel Survey. The Data Collaborative, a joint partnership effort by the Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response (FPR). Community Legal Resources (CLR). And Data Driven Detroit (D3). The survey also found that 26% of the city's residential parcels - or 91,000 lots - are now vacant. Data from the survey should help planners by showing exactly where the vacant lots are. (The survey did not identify ...Gover...
nationalcad.blogspot.com
National Parcels: March 2010
http://nationalcad.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html
This blog site is a discussion site for national parcel and cadastral data to support the Cadastral NSDI. The FGDC Cadastral Subcommittee coordinates the activities and standards for the Cadastral NSDI. The implementation depends on parcel data producers and access through trusted data publishers such as states. Saturday, March 13, 2010. Detroit Vacancy Survey – Making Parcel Data Relevant to the Discussion. Isn’t this exactly the type of service local government should be providing? Why couldn’t t...
mapdetroit.blogspot.com
Mapping The Strait: June 2011
http://mapdetroit.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html
Exploring Detroit through maps and diagrams. Monday, June 13, 2011. Ruminations on Rightsizing, Act I. In this first part of a series of pieces about Detroit’s evolving land use plans, I want to weigh in on the issue of population density. Issues based on this simple metric are at the core of the reasons for, and objectives of, the city’s rightsizing debate. Despite the significance of this measure, it seems to suffer from overuse and misuse by both. The Free Press’ famous. To accurately compare the rela...
mapdetroit.blogspot.com
Mapping The Strait: November 2010
http://mapdetroit.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
Exploring Detroit through maps and diagrams. Saturday, November 27, 2010. Last House on the Prairie. Fox 2 News,. But just how common are these rural Detroiters? Does the size of the city's LHB population warrant the attention? Using Detroit Residential Parcel Survey. And City of Detroit. Data, I tried to measure this phenomenon. I used the radius of a short block, 300 feet, as my threshold for isolation - if a resident's nearest neighbor was more than 300' away, I included them as a LHB. Clearly, no are...
rethinkdetroit.org
Rightsizing | Rethink Detroit
http://www.rethinkdetroit.org/category/rightsizing
Gallagher argues that although shrinking cities like Detroit face severe challenges, they also possess the space and opportunity to become greener and more livable, even if they continue to shrink. For inspiration, Gallagher turns to a host of other cities that have pioneered ways to make use of empty space and retrofit obsolete infrastructure. In Portland. Unneeded highways have been removed from the city center, enabling neighborhoods to reconnect to the waterfront. In Seoul. Reseed the lots with grass...