Sabina Deitrick, Pittsburgh Community Information System

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02-07-06
Sabina Deitrick, Pittsburgh Community Information
System University Center for Social and Urban
Research, 412-624-3092, www.ucsur.pitt.edu
Technical Approach
Concept Example Multiple Property Owners in
Oakland Neighborhood, 2004

• Community Information Systems combine secondary,
  administrative, and select primary data to
  develop better analysis and decision making of
  neighborhood-based issues and problems.
• CIS is GIS-enabled technology to provide
  interactive mapping tools with conventional
  database system.
• ArcIMS-based system and development of
  peer-to-peer data commons.

Application
Collaborations

• Carnegie Mellon University Center for Economic
  Development
• Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood
  Development
• City of Pittsburgh
• Urban Redevelopment Authority
• Allegheny County
• Maya Design

• System to include over 50 key measures from a
  variety of public and nonprofit data sources.
• Source of data for planning and analysis used for
  neighborhood revitalization.
• Neighborhood level data for research and
  analysis.
• University researchers can use data under data
  sharing agreements.
• Set of Community Development Corporations to be
  first community users.

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