FA09 Exciting Class!

If anyone is still or has yet to register for their full load of classes, here is a very interesting course (ARCH567LD--partial description below). If you're interested in housing, community development, and working with community partners, this is a great opportunity! 

ARCH576LD full description 

CRN 40267 TR 6:30-7:50

Professor Lynne M. Dearborn 

3-credit Graduate Seminar, limit 15 students 

Enrollment by consent of instructor (email: dearborn@illinois.edu) 

 This seminar will provide students with background and actual experience in collecting information about the built environment. The goal of this seminar is to collect and bring together various types of community and regional housing data and to create a web-based tool that will make these data easily accessible and useful for housing advocates and service providers in St. Clair County. Student will work with ESLARP’s community housing partners and respond to specific information needs of these organizations.  

By employing GIS Mapping, we will create a web-based tool that will make these data easily accessible and useful for these organizations. The data assembled will include both existing data and new collection focused on the physical housing stock, affordability issues, and lending practices. 

We will work with our community partners to identify data needs, design survey tools, collect information, and share data, maps, and analysis. We expect to create a rich database of information that includes quantitative data, qualitative information about residents’ and providers’ assessments and needs, photographs of structures and blocks, which we will link together through mapping to provide a comprehensive picture of housing needs.