Abstract
Visualizing Urban Change: GIS to Enhance Preservation and Planning Curriculum
Track: Teaching with GIS Across the Curriculum
Authors: Jennifer Minner
The official motto for Austin is "Keep Austin Weird." How weird are Austin's neighborhoods? Were they historically so strange? What are prospects for the future? How can the qualities of place be captured in a geodatabase and studied? This presentation focuses on opportunities to incorporate GIS in the classroom for hands-on study of the dynamics of urban development and change. Ideas were generated while developing GIS labs and workshops to enhance planning and historic preservation courses at the University of Texas at Austin. They were also gleaned while coordinating student participation in a national survey of commercial vernacular buildings and in dissertation research on urban change along commercial corridors. This session focuses on innovations to engage students with study of durability, adaptation, and change in urban neighborhoods through time.
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