Abstract
Funding and Envisioning Sustainable Neighborhoods
Track: Census and Geodemographics
Author(s): Earl Bossard
Finding and envisioning neighborhoods with sustainable prospects can be done using GIS to organize and model geodemographic data. Learning to successfully develop community indicators can enable analysts to contribute to our long term survival during the transition from drivable (but unsustainable) suburbanism to walkable (and sustainable) urbanism.
This presentation enables identification of neighborhoods meeting threshold levels of sustainable criteria. Standards include quantified cross-cultural guidelines originally developed in qualitative form as the Sanborn Principles. Using mostly transformed census data, multiple indices are developed to estimate the relative breadth and intensity of desired neighborhood characteristics such as green transportation, short travel times to work, population density, multiple family housing, fair share low income household proportions and neighborhood bike path density bicycle friendliness.
Maps of pass-fail success and indices of factor intensities are used to fine-tune fuzzy criteria and indices, leading to discovery of Davis, California neighborhoods with good prospects for long-term sustainability.
Earl Bossard
San Jose State University
401 Del Oro Ave.
Davis , California 95616-0418
United States
Phone: 530-758-1602
Fax: 408-924-5872
E-mail: bossard3@pacbell.net