Schlossberg, Marc

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Marc Schlossberg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Planning, Public Policy, and Management

University of Oregon

128 Hendricks Hall

Eugene, OR

(541) 346-2046

(541) 346-2040 (fax)

Email: schlossb@uoregon.edu

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    Crest Drive Community Mapping Project - Community Atlas 1.0
    (2006-05-16) Schlossberg, Marc; Heater, Heather; Bargen, Sara; Rolniak, David
    This Atlas contains a series of maps resulting froma community-based mapping project between the University of Oregon and the Crest Drive Citizens Association in Eugene, OR. In the Fall, 2006 academic term, students taking the class “PPPM 4/536: Applied Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Social Planning” worked with residents of the Crest Drive Neighborhood to collect data in the neighborhood of interest to residents. The planning for this project began about four months prior to the term when the Chair of the neighborhood association, Kathy Saranpa, and I, the instructor of the course, met to brainstorm potential project ideas. Over the course of those four months, we eventually decided to conduct a walkability analysis of some central streets between Crest Drive Elementary School and Wayne Morse Ranch. Data was collected using ArcPad GIS with teams of residents and students doing the data collection. In addition to maps showing this data, this final Atlas also includes maps of the neighborhood using other city and census data.
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    When GIS was Rejected: Implications for collaborative planning and public participation GIS (PPGIS)
    (2005-09-02T18:01:45Z) Schlossberg, Marc; Mattia, Mathew
    In November of 2001, community residents in the city of Eugene, Oregon stated that there is an “excessive concentration” of social services in two of its neighborhoods. In response, the City Council suggested that mapping and analyzing the spatial distribution of social services would be an important component to understand and address this matter. A Task Force comprised of neighborhood representatives, social service representatives, and two neutral participants was developed to explore this issue in a collaborative method. Mapping services were offered to the task force, but was rejected by the group because members thought that mapping the locations of social service and neighborhoods would not accurately capture the issue, would be too complex, too subjective, and a waste of time. This paper explores the decision of the group to reject the use of GIS, the general failure of the Task Force, and suggests broader implications related to the use of GIS in collaborative and public participation planning endeavors.