Arcgis and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach for Local Government

Book Description
Both a textbook for GIS classes in urban planning and a workbook for local governments, this book shows how to do real tasks that are required when a city decides to go digital and use geographic information systems (GIS) to store and access information. With this book, planners, analysts, and other local government staff use data from a real city to perform tasks such as creating buildings and parcels, setting coordinate systems, and building geodatabase topology. After creating a geodatabase, working with attribute data, and geocoding data, planners will be able to perform spatial analysis to find possible drug houses near playgrounds, find buildable vacant lots, produce land use reports, and more. With these exercises users will understand the power and the problems associated with working with real data in a GIS and be able to use ArcGIS software to address issues of importance to cities and counties.


About the Author
William E. Huxhold is a professor in the department of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and is the author of An Introduction to Urban Geographic Systems. Eric M. Fowler is an ArcGIS trainer. They both live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


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When local governments decide to go digital and use a geographic information system (GIS) to store and access information, many tasks need to be done. ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach for Local Government provides step-by-step exercises using real data with ArcGIS that take you through the process of building and using GIS data in a local government. Containing the authentic nuts and bolts of daily GIS activities, this is a textbook for GIS classes in urban planning plus a workbook for local governments. Planners, analysts, and other local government staff can get hands-on experience using data sources from a real city. Working with ArcGIS 9 geoprocessing tools, you will perform spatial analysis to produce land-use reports, analyze residential density, and find possible drug houses near playgrounds. After doing the exercises in ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach for Local Government, you will understand the power and the problems associated with working with real data in a GIS, and you will be able to use ArcGIS Desktop to address issues crucial to cities and counties.


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