Christopher Thomas - Building a Smarter Community: GIS for State and Local Government

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Building A Smarter Community: GIS for State & Local Government (Applying GIS series)

Provide open data, balance decisions and initiatives, and create equitable policies.

Place matters to governments and citizens, and location intelligence has never been more important for decision-making. Building a Smarter Community: GIS for State and Local Government shows how government leaders, department managers, and the public use geographic information system (GIS) technology to visualize and analyze data for planning and urban design, efficient operations, data-driven decisions, and civic inclusion.

Sections on getting started with GIS provide helpful ideas, strategies, tools, and actions and a collection of online resources to jump-start your use of GIS for state and local government.

Edited by Christopher Thomas, director for state and local government at Esri, and Keith Mann, Esri Press.

Applying GIS

The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker, with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each pocket-size book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and a road map for getting started with GIS.

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Obeying the law, serving on a jury, and paying taxes are fundamental aspects of civic responsibility and community stability. However, the greater goal of making a community a better place to live requires citizens and governments to work together to affect change and address larger economic, environmental, and social issues. State and local governments form the front lines of improving the lives of residents by responding to community needs and requests, increasing access to social services, and introducing initiatives and programs that improve the infrastructure, safety, and health of communities within their jurisdictions.

In this book, the word community includes all the ways that people are combined within governmental jurisdictions, from small neighborhoods to regional areas (such as counties), to large jurisdictions (such as states and provinces). These communities are inherently entangled with each other through location. For example, a neighborhood exists within a city, which in turn is part of a county that is contained within a state. Governancethe processes that ensure accountability, openness, equity and inclusiveness, and participationflows between communities.

With smart communities, the word smart refers to the use of technology, accurate and timely data, and scientific methods to solve problems. A smart community uses innovative approaches, including location intelligence, to collect and share information and drive good decision-making.

Smart communities dont wait for someone to deem them smart; they take action. One of the most effective actions is to apply geographic information system (GIS) technology to planning and urban design, operations (such as public works), and social issues (such as racial equity and social justice). With GIS, state and local governments make more informed, data-driven decisions that lead to improved outcomes. These outcomes can be shared and replicated in other communities, helping citizens and governments work better together for the common good.

This book is organized in four parts.

With GIS, city and regional planners and urban designers can create realistic alternatives for comparing different planning and design scenarios, including 2D and 3D visualizations that are more relatable to government officials, businesses, and residents. Planners can combine data about diversity, high density and mixed land uses, open space preservation, housing affordability, and economic viability into their analysis, maps, and presentations to the public.