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

• Chapter 2: Re-Examining Singapore's Urban Planning and Governance Framework in Planning Singapore: The Experimental City. This book is available in digital form in smu library.
• Chapter 6: Geographic Information Systems of Springer Handbook of Geographic Information
• Chapter 20: Planning of Springer Handbook of Geographic Information
• How GIS technology helps in Smart City growth?
• GIS: The Intelligent Nervous System

Addition Readings

• What Is GIS?
• Geographic Information Systems and Urban Planning
• See What Others Can't
• Urban Planning
• What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
• Chapter 1 Introduction to GIS of Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis
• Geographic information system
• Geographic Information Systems: film on demand at smu digital library
• Geospatial Revolution / Episode One
• Geospatial Revolution / Episode Two
• Geospatial Revolution / Episode Three
• Geospatial Revolution / Episode Four
• Shatkin, G (2014) "Reinterpreting the Meaning of the 'Singapore' Model: State Capitalism and Urban Planning", International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 38, Issue 1, pp. 116-137.

All About QGIS

• A Gentle Introduction to GIS. Section on Introducing GIS.