PPGIS in neighbourhood planning: a strategy for inner-city community gardens, Winnipeg, Manitoba

• Main Author: Hong, Sangwoo
• Other Authors: Milgrom, Richard (City Planning)
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: PPGIS; Planning; Cognitive mapping; Perception research; Public participation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31507

As spatial information has become more accessible and cheaper, interest in using Geographic Information System (GIS) has increased in a variety of fields including geology, social science, land management, and urban design. GIS has been considered a tool to provide geographically more accurate information and maps, but there are still underexplored questions about whether GIS is a tool that encourages or hinders active public participation in community planning practices; or whether it only intensifies fact-based research methods rather than encouraging more comprehensive approaches. In order to address these questions, this practicum examines how GIS may be useful to encourage public participation, how information and knowledge collected from residents or a neighbourhood can be applied to developing a GIS model and how these data may be incorporated with community plan. To analyze and illustrate the processes, this practicum explores community gardens in the Daniel McIntyre and St. Matthews Communities in Winnipeg, Manitoba and aims to develop a GIS model to assist with the process of identifying the strategical locations for future garden sites. === October 2016