Using GIS for Urban Insights - Kirstin Miller/Ecocity Builders

Using GIS for Urban Insights

Kirstin Miller, Executive Director, Ecocity Builders

Oakland, California, USA

TraditionalUnsustainableEcological

Transitioning for Resilience

UNDERSTAND the city as an urban ecosystem

and assess its condition and metabolism (resource flows)

Ecocity Information Model

Enables integrated thinking and design solutions

Form and flows

GIS

Geographic information system

UMIS

Urban metabolic information systems

EcoCity Projects Layer

EcoCitizen Surveys Layer

Basemap Data Layer

Environmental Assessments Layer

Neighborhood Resource Flow Layer

Map Layers

• CITY DATA AND INFORMATION

• HIGH LEVEL CONCEPTS AND INFORMATION

• ADD SPECIFIC CONCEPTS FROM MORE GENERIC ONES

• CITIZEN DATA AND INFORMATION

• START FROM REAL EXISTING OBJECTS

• AGGREGATE INTO MORE GENERIC OBJECTS

• LINK TO THE TOP DOWN LEVEL

Review materials including EcoCompassCompendium and web

maps (link); assess capacity; identify

community engagement methods.

Your academic institution

or grassroots non-profit is interested in

participating as a pilot city of the EWMP.

No

Have you reviewed EWMP

introductory materialsand standards, assessed internal capacity, and

discussed a community engagement

strategy and project goals?

Yes

No

1. INTRODUCTION AND ALIGNMENT

2. PARTNER IDENTIFICATION

4. LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE3. ACADEMIC

COURSES5. BOOTCAMP

TRAINING6. DEBRIEF

AND ADAPTATION

Phase I: Knowledge Sharing -Six Steps

Hold meeting between grassroots non-profit

and academic institutions to develop

partnership. Assess potential urban districts based on mutual work, experience and where

there is significant demand.

If you are an academic

institution, have you identified grassroots non-profit(s) to partner with? If you are a grassroots non-profit, have you identified academic

institution(s)?

No

Scan existing contacts and research non-

profits and/or academic institutions

whose work aligns with EWMP project goals

and community engagement methods.

Start or end Key decision points Process and Actions

Yes

DEFINITIONS

Academic institution: a technical college or post-secondary university.

Grassroots Non-Profit: an organization involved in citizen issues (e.g. human rights, environmental health, etc.).

Community-based organization (CBO): an organization whose primary services directly benefit a neighborhood or community (e.g. housing tenure, food security, etc.).

Is there sufficient capacity

to provide full EWMP academic course;

seminars and labs? This includes having

a dedicated instructorand teaching

assistant.

No

Yes

Yes

No

Complete EWMP community asset

accounting (link), listing any relevant

community-based organization.

Download and adapt EcoCompass materials

(link). Register participants/students.

Implement course through academic

institution with involvement of

grassroots non-profit(s) (e.g. guest lecturers,

case studies, field surveys).

As part of course program,

participants/students, with support from

academic institution(s) and grassroots non-

profit(s), contact CBO and introduce project.

Organize logistics of leadership roundtable

(link) in or near the community or

neighborhood from where the CBO

primary services are based.

Revisit the community engagement strategy

with the CBO and assess promotional

ways to ensure community or

neighborhood citizens attend the leadership roundtable. With the

CBO, define proposed participatory methods

to support citizen leadership in research activities of bootcamptraining and beyond.

CBO, grassroots non-profit(s) and

participants/students engage in outreach and promotion for

roundtable.

No

Yes

Hasthe CBO

helped shape thecommunity

engagement strategy, determining

methods to maximize citizen

partici-pation (e.g. flyering,

announcements, ads, etc.)?

Leadership roundtable is held, defining citizen involvement and the specified study area.

Has astudy area, date

and location been finalized for bootcamp

activities?

Are teams of participants/stude

nts formed to facilitate training

of citizens on bootcampresearch activities?

Revisit discussion with CBO and finalize study

area, date, location for bootcamp training.

No

Reconsider current potential for EWMP

pilot city project.

Participants/students form teams according to bootcamp research

activities. Review participatory training

methods and test hard/software (link).

Yes

No

Yes

Implement bootcamptraining.

CBO, grassroots non-profit(s), and

academic institution(s) (incl. available

participants/student) to review research

data gaps, obstacles, and project goals post-bootcamp.

Develop and/or customize databases to store and organize data collected during

the bootcamptraining.

Are there changes

that need to be made

to data collection resources or participatory

methods, before proceeding with

further data collection?

Discuss proposed changes with CBO, revise methods and

edit resources as necessary.

Yes

Proceed with further data collection in the

study area.

No

Share outcomes and data through EWMP online media (link).

Initiate Phase II of the EcoCompass with the

CBO as part of the EWMP (link).

DURATION of STEP >>

Is there sufficient capacity

to adapt an existingacademic course or

offer an intensive to include

EcoCompassmaterials?

EcoCitizen Surveys

Parcel Audits

Neighborhood Metaflow: Parcel Audits

S

BREAKS DOWN SILOS AND LINKS KNOWLEDGE, DATA AND INFORMATION

15 universal conditions for healthy cities and a society in balance with earth systems.

Use ubiquitous STANDARDS and MEASURES for the assessment

www.ecocitystandards.org

http://www.ecocity/

Map objectives to challenges

Cario 2016

ENGAGE CITIZENS with the information and in collecting the information

Urban agriculture

Co-working

Low impact storm

water management

Farmer’s markets

Bicycle greenways

REPLICATE what fits and what works

EcoCity green rezoning policies

• A rezoning policy to achieve higher

sustainability standards as an essential part of

large site developments.

• All rezonings that involve 2 acres or more of

land must include plans or studies in six areas:

• District energy screening and

feasibility

• Sustainable site design

• Green mobility and clean vehicles

• Rainwater management

• Solid waste diversion

• Sustainable housing affordability and

housing mix Vancouver

Enact POLICIES to enable transformation and scaling

TOOLS AND RESOURCES

Map

UrbinsightPlatform

Measure

Ecocity Standards

and Indicators

Network

EcocityWiki

Define

Urban Ontology

Go Deeper

ResourceLibrary

Tour

Ecocity VR

Teach

EcoCompass

www.ecocitybuilders.org

http://www.ecocitystandards.org

Contact: Kirstin Miller, Executive Director

[email protected]

Visit www.ecocity2017.com

for further information

http://www.ecocitybuilders.org

Using GIS for Urban Insights - Kirstin Miller/Ecocity Builders

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