Arguing that intelligent urban policymaking requires both a spatial and an analytical understanding of how cities are organized, this examination of how residential patterns are shaped by population and employment uses geographic information systems (GIS) and a "one world" approach to policy research and new urban planning challenges in global metropolitan regions and megacities. The analysis of new perspectives on urban research and policy questions that GIS provides is a significant contribution to the collective effort to solve urban policy problems.
Synopsis
Arguing that intelligent urban policymaking requires both a spatial and an analytical understanding of how cities are organized, this examination of how residential patterns are shaped by population and employment uses geographic information systems (GIS) and a "one world" approach to policy research and new urban planning challenges in global metropolitan regions and megacities. The analysis of new perspectives on urban research and policy questions that GIS provides is a significant contribution to the collective effort to solve urban policy problems.
About the Author, Ayse Pamuk
Ayse Pamuk is an associate professor of urban studies at San Francisco State University and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California-Berkeley. She has advised the governments of Brazil, Turkey, and Trinidad and Tobago on low income housing policy and was awarded the National Science Foundation grant to integrate GIS into social science research methods curricula. Her articles have been published in leading urban studies journals, which include "Habitat International," "International Journal of Urban and Regional Research," "Journal of Planning Education and Research," and "Urban Studies." She lives in San Francisco, California.
