Josef Stagg

Using High Technology to Develop the Virtual Community

ArcInfo-ArcView, telecommunication, and all related high-technology hold the greatest potential for rejuvenation our inner city communities of any tools in the history of community planning. To achieve the potential this ArcInfo-ARCVIEW and the high-technology:

  1. must be goal-oriented;
  2. it must both reside in the foreground (used to capture group-attention) and background (the interface must be so seamless that the technology becomes invisible);
  3. all the high-technology must work together as one tool; but most of all,
  4. it must include simultaneous participation (a concept similar to concurrent engineering but includes community residents in the planning process from beginning to end and releases the tools to the residents so that they may perform community planning themselves).

A National Science Foundation planning grant has allowed us to develop an inner city model using multiple levels of ArcInfo-ArcView, telecommunication, and high-technology in working with several communities in the inner city of Milwaukee. The exploration will be done by March, 1995 and will be ready to be presented in a multimedia format by May, 1995.

Josef Stagg
University of Wisconsin
Department of Architecture
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
Telephone: 414-229-4032
Fax: 414-229-6976
Email: jstagg@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu