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GeoDesign: A Bibliography

In Design, GIS on August 13, 2009 at 11:30 am

The concepts of “GeoDesign” grew out of discussions over the potential of integrating design more fully into GIS, and over the development of curriculum in spatial thinking.

Anselin, L. (2008) Spatial Thinking, Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Design. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Artz, M. (2009) GIS Enters the Design Space. Redlands, California: ArcWatch, June 2009.

Artz, M. (2009) GIS and Global Design. GISandScience.com blog, 04 June 2009.

Ball, M. (2009) Dangermond on GIS and Design. Spatial Sustain blog, 17 June 2009.

Ball, M. (2009) Dealing with a Rapidly Changing Planet. Spatial Sustain blog, 13 July 2009.

Ball, M. (2009) GeoDesign Promises a More Planned Future. V1 Magazine, 26 July 2009.

Ball, M. (2010) Goodchild on the Yin and Yang of GIS. Spatial Sustain blog, 06 January 2010.

Ball, M. (2010) GeoDesign as a Return to the Potential of GIS. Spatial Sustain blog, 06 January 2010.

Ball, M. (2010) Ferren Asserts that GeoDesign is the Next Storytelling Medium. Spatial Sustain blog, 07 January 2010. 

Ball, M. (2010) Steinitz Discusses Different Design Approaches. Spatial Sustain blog, 07 January 2010.

Ball, M. (2010) GeoDesign Provides the Basis for a New Language. Spatial Sustain blog, 07 January 2010.

Ball, M. (2010) GeoDesign Challenge to Spur Meaningful Work. Spatial Sustain blog, 08 January 2010.

Ball, M. (2010) The Inclusive Push for GeoDesign. Spatial Sustain blog, 08 January 2010.

Ball, M. (2010) The Fresh Start that GeoDesign Offers. Spatial Sustain blog, 10 January 2010.

Ball, M. (2010) Vancouver Embodies GeoDesign.  Spatial Sustain blog, 12 January 2010.

Ball, M. (2010) Avoid Thinking of GeoDesign as a Manifestation of the Singularity. Spatial Sustain blog, 13 January 2010. 

Batty, M. (2008) Design as a Growth Process Represented Through GIS. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Batty, P.  (2009)  Shakespeare on GeoDesign.  Geothought blog, 17 September 2009.

Batty, P.  (2009)  Jack Dangermond on GeoDesign.  Geothought blog, 07 October 2009.

Baumann, J. (2009) Interview: Carl Steinitz on GIS and Design. GISandScience.com blog, 16 September 2009.

Dangermond, J. (2009) GIS: Designing Our Future. Redlands, California: ArcNews, Summer 2009.

Dangermond, J. (2009) The Vision of a Purposefully Designed Future.  Redlands, California: ArcUser, Fall 2009.

Dykes, J. (2008) GeoVisualization, GIS and Design. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Entchev, A. ( 2010) GeoDesign 2010 and Beyond. The ENTCHEV GIS blog, 06 January 2010.

Ervin, S. (2008) To what extent can the fundamental spatial concepts of design be addressed with GIS? Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Fabrikant, S.I. (2008) Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Fee, J.  (2010)  Thoughts on the GeoDesign Summit.  Spatial Adjusted blog, 09 January 2010.

Fisher, T. (2008) Spatial Thinking and Design Thinking: Similarities and Differences. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Fisher, T. (2010) Monday Minute, January 11, 2010. University of Minnesota College of Design, 11 January 2010.

Gersmehl, P. (2008) Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Goodchild, M. (2008) Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Grossner, K.and Janelle, D. (2008) spatial@ucsb: Perspectives for Teaching and Research. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Howarth, J. (2008) Understanding Purposive Space with GIS. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Hurt, I. (2008) Design? Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Kemp, K. (2008) Thoughts from 20 years of developing “curricula” for GIS. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Longley, P. (2008) To what extent are the fundamental spatial concepts that lie behind GIS relevant in design? Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Miller, W. R. (2008) Geo-Spatial Design. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Orland, B. (2008) Information for design: Interacting environmental systems in space and time. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Roche, S. (2008) Towards a “Leonardo da Vinci approach” of GIS for Spatial Design. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Schutzberg, A. (2010) ESRI Geodesign Summit Day 1 AM. All Points blog, 06 January 2010.

Schutzberg, A. (2010) ESRI Geodesign Summit Day 1 PM. All Points blog, 07 January 2010.

Schutzberg, A. (2010) Jack Dangermond’s Research Vision for #Geodesign Parallels that for GIS. All Points blog, 07 January 2010.

Schutzberg, A. (2010) Tidbits from the Geodesign Summit. All Points blog, 07 January 2010.

Schutzberg, A. (2010) ESRI Geodesign Summit Day 2 PM. All Points blog, 07 January 2010.

Schutzberg, A. (2010) ESRI Geodesign Summit Day 2 AM. All Points blog, 07 January 2010.

Schutzberg, A. (2010) Geodesign Summit Day 3 AM. All Points blog, 08 January 2010.

Schutzberg, A. (2010) GeoDesign Summit Reflections. Directions magazine. 14 January 2010.

Steinitz, C. (2008) On Scale and Complexity and the Need for Spatial Analysis. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Sui, D. (2008) From “GIS for Design” to “Design for GIS”: Preliminary thoughts on designing a curriculum for spatial thinking. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Szukalski, B.  (2010) ArcGIS Online as a substrate for GeoDesign (and more).  ArcGIS Online blog, 11 January 2010.

Talen, E. (2008) Linking Space and Place: A Methodology for Geospatial Design. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

Thurston, J. (2008) What is spatial design, and how can it be applied to sustainability problems? Vector One blog, 05 December 2008.

Thurston, J. (2009) Are Geospatial Tools Design Tools? Vector One blog, 29 January 2009.

Thurston, J.  (2010)  Putting Your Finger on the Spatial Pulse of Design.  Vector One blog, January 14, 2010.

Vargas-Moreno, J.C. (2008) SPATIAL DELPHI: Geo-Collaboration and participatory GIS in Design and Planning. Santa Barbara, California: Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design, December 15-16, 2008.

New e-book: GIS in the Social Sciences

In Books, ESRI, GIS, Social Science on August 13, 2009 at 10:29 am

socsciESRI has published a new e-book in its “GIS Best Practices” series of case studies.  “GIS Best Practices: Social Sciences” features the following stories:

  • Social Sciences: Interest in GIS Grows
  • Pinpointing the Languages of the World with GIS
  • Spatial Analysis Optimizes Malaria Prevention Measures
  • Preserving the World’s Dying Languages with GIS
  • Spatial Patterns of Disease Inspire New Ideas on Possible Causes
  • What Historians Want from GIS
  • Bringing Foster Care Management into the 21st Century with GIS
  • Archaeology, Genealogy, and GIS Meet at Columbia Cemetery
  • Ghana Project Leverages GIS-Based Title Registration and Microfinance to Alleviate Poverty
  • Mapping Hunger with GIS

Spatial Analysis of Contaminated and Unused Land for Biofuel Crop Potential

In Green Technologies, Spatial Analysis on August 13, 2009 at 7:40 am

…from physorg.com…

“…to maximize energy output, biofuel processing plants need to be strategically located near cropland. The team used spatial analysis to demonstrate how to find ideal locations for processing plants and how biofuel plots could be planted to maximize the contaminated water they receive.”

Water Quality Atlas uses ArcGIS Server 9.3

In Conferences, ESRI, Environmental Science, GIS, Video on August 13, 2009 at 7:30 am

“Lytle is Vital Watershed program” was presented during the Lightning Talks session at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference.

Using GIS to Study Greenroof Capacity

In Climate Change, Education, Environmental Science, GIS, Science on August 13, 2009 at 7:29 am

…from ScienceDaily…

[T]he plants on greenroofs can absorb … water – “like a sponge being saturated,” says Olyssa Starry, a graduate student at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Starry studied a greenroof atop a Baltimore building in comparison to a similar building without a greenroof to determine how well the roof would absorb water from frequent storms. By measuring water flowing out of building downspouts, she found that the greenroof retained from 30 to 75 percent of water from storms, compared to a negligible amount retained by the building with no greenroof.

Although her results are preliminary, Starry thinks that cities can reap benefits from making greenroofs a part of their building requirements, as cities like Toronto and Berlin have recently done. Using GIS satellite imagery, she estimated the number and area of buildings that could hold greenroofs within one watershed in the Baltimore area. If all these roofs were greened, she says, the city could save the watershed 8 million gallons of water per year, or about 10 percent of its yearly water loss.

Spatial Analysis and Fuel Savings

In Conferences, ESRI, GIS, Green Technologies, Spatial Analysis, Video on August 13, 2009 at 7:29 am

Learn how building inspectors from the City of Ft. Collins, TX, used ArcLogistics to optimize routes and work schedules to realize savings of almost $1 million annually. This video was recorded at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference.

Latest Archaeological Digs May Revamp Qatar’s Entire History

In GIS, Imagery, Science, Social Science on August 13, 2009 at 7:28 am

“Recent excavations conducted in Qatar has resulted in a substantial number of new sites being discovered and significantly more archaeological research in the region, which may revamp the whole history of the nation written so far.

“According to a report in The Peninsula On-line, there has been a notable increase in the amount of archaeological field work being conducted in Qatar covering the ancient to the Islamic periods.

“The research is bringing important new information to light.

“In October last year, Qatar had become the first country in the region to implement the Global Imagery System for archeological studies as part of a research by QMA and the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

“This research involved the use of remote sensors and geospatial modelling to reconstruct the former onshore and offshore landscape environments in Qatar.”

New Imagery Enhancements in ArcGIS 9.4

In Conferences, ESRI, GIS, Imagery, Video on August 13, 2009 at 7:28 am

This video demonstrates new imagery enhancements that will be available in ArcGIS 9.4.