Laura Smith
Assistant Professor
Syllabus
COLLABORATIVE
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Spring 2008
Examing Spatial Mismatch in the Twin Cities Metro
Spring 2006
North Minneapolis
Neighborhood Trends
Spring 2004
Foreclosure Study
Press Article
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GEOG 365: Advanced Cartography & Urban GIS
| Many neighborhood and community groups, local units of government, and research organizations have begun to implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in a wide range of tasks related to research, planning, and management in urban areas. In this class, we participate in a "real world" application of our knowledge and skills in GIS in a semester-long collaborative research project. |
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In previous semesters, we have partnered with neighborhood community groups around campus to study Macalester students living off-campus, and with the Community Affairs department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis to study the patterns and characteristics of mortgage foreclosures in the Twin Cities. In Spring 2008, we again worked with the Community Affairs department of the Fed, this time to examine the jobs-housing spatial mismatch hypothesis for the Twin Cities metro.
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