Projects Areas

Arts and Culture

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Children and Youth
Philadelphia Services Utilization Monitoring System (SUMS)

Palm Beach County Community Resource Information and Mapping System (CRIMS)

Market Analysis for Comprehensive Day Care (CDCs) services

Truancy Evaluation


Housing and Community Development

Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System (NIS)

Closing the Gap: Housing (un)Affordability in Philadelphia (in press)

Predicting Housing Abandonment with the Philadelphia NIS (Urban Affairs)

Housing Vacancy Prevention Project

The Philadelphia Snapshot Project & Related Neighborhood Survey Projects

Historical Redlining in Philadelphia

New York City Early Warning System for Housing Abandonment


Neighborhood Indicator Systems
University City Indicators
Franklin County (Columbus, OH) Community Data System (CDS)


Planning and Environment
The Philadelphia Brownfields Inventory
Research on Valuation of Land and Improvements in Philadelphia

Public Health
An EXPORT Center of Excellence for Inner City Health
Firearms-Related Injury and its Relationship to the Spatial Distribution of Alcohol Outlets
An Exploratory Study of the Spatial Distribution of Animal Abuse
Social-Structural Determinants of Pre-term birth in Philadelphia
The Penn GIS Symposium on Public Health
SNAKS Project

US Trauma Center Maps


Public Safety
The Philadelphia Firearms Tracking Initiative


Social Welfare
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Public Shelter Admissions, PHA Waiting Lists, and PHA Tenant Outcomes
Redlining in Philadelphia


GIS Studios
Costa Rica Spheres

Gungywamp Swamp

Tierra Sajama


The Cartographic Modeling Lab
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