Lesson 1

SMT201 Geographic Information Systems for Urban Planning

About

Weekly Session

Take Home Exercises

GIS Project

Course Resources

Introduction to GIS for Urban Planning

Lesson Outline

• Course Overview
• An Overview of Urban Planning
  • Theory and philosophy of planning
  • Practice of urban planning
  • Urban planning and management in Singapore
• Introduction to GIS
  • Basic concept of a GIS
  • System view of a GIS
• GIS in the context of Smart Nation

Readings

Core Readings

• Urban Planning
• Why Visual Analytics
• Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age
• The 5 Most Influential Data Visualizations of All Time
• Whitepaper: Visual Analysis for Everyone

Addition Readings

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