Conducting a Housing Condition Assessment with ArcPad:
The West University Neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon
Assistant Professor: Marc Schlossberg
Graduate Students: Zachary Phillips and Darren Wyss
Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM)


 

In the summer of 2004, the City of Eugene asked the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) to conduct a housing condition survey of all residential properties in the West University Neighborhood.  The original conception of the project was to create an appropriate measurement instrument and then collect the data using a sidewalk survey technique with a clipboard, paper, and pencil.
 
At the time this project was to begin, PPPM (via Assistant Professor Marc Schlossberg) received a small seed grant from the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) to develop mobile GIS-based technology curricula for a class on GIS and social planning.  The housing survey became the initial test of this new tool and its success has launched a flurry of other activity and interest around mobile-GIS and ArcPad-based applications.

Key Links for More Information on this Project:

click here Project Summary
click here Residential Condition Assessment Form (PDF)
click here Screen shots of the ArcPad Residential Condition Assessment Form
click here Sample Map - Residential Properties (PDF)
click here Sample Map - Residential Property Scores (PDF)
click here Draft Final Report (PDF)
click here Project Methodology (PDF)
click here ArcPad *.apl file (this is the data entry interface for ArcPad)
click here Excel file of the results
click here Data key for the assessment fields (PDF)

  Main Community-Based GIS with ArcPad Page  
       
Neighborhood GIS Walkability GIS Housing Condition GIS Teaching GIS

   

   

 For more information:
 Marc Schlossberg
 541-346-2046
 schlossb@uoregon.edu
http://www.uoregon.edu/~schlossb/PPPM/

   

Last edited on: December 07, 2004