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Mapping the Sense of Place
Using GIS and the Internet to Produce a Cultural Resource Inventory for South Kingstown, RI
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Land
Use Studies in Rhode Island
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acquisition is one strategy to prevent inefficient sprawl-based
development and preserve a distinct sense of place. At
the national, state, and local level, priority is given to acquiring
land with documented cultural significance. Cultural resources,
however, are the least accessible within the emerging GIS technological
regime. This project integrates a parcel-based GIS map with multimedia
HTML pages, making South Kingstown's cultural resource information
available to planners and residents. read the executive summary |
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information systems (GIS) were developed in the 1960s, but it
was only in the past decade that inexpensive and powerful computers
allowed the technology to proliferate. GIS has found applications
in almost every field, providing academic geographers and planning
professionals with a tool to organize, analyze, and display spatial
data. However, a critical discourse on the technology is just developing.
read more about GIS |
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has never been more funding available for open space acquisition in
South Kingstown. This project provides an parcel-level cultural
resource base map which can be used in conjunction with more traditional
natural resource maps in ongoing projects to identify land for open
space preservation. In addition, the map provides a starting point
for further citizen-led planning initiatives in South Kingstown. read project recommendations |
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Nathaniel James — Undergraduate Thesis in Environmental Studies — Brown University — Spring 2001