Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
exploring sustainability-related issues in Section 4. Spatial thinking used to
assess sustainability following the capital framework can guard against losing
sight of holistic, context-specific, and dynamic notions of sustainability.
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In this section I present case studies in which GIS was applied to building
community capital. The section is organized into different forms of
community capital—namely, natural capital, built capital, human capital, and
social capital—to connect with the capital framework presented in the next
section. The case studies presented in this section are drawn from service-
learning projects that students enrolled in the GIS program at DePaul
University conducted in partnership with CBOs or non-profit organizations in
the Chicagoland area from 2007 to 2013. The names of the partner CBOs are
shown in italics in this section.
Figure 1. Kernel density map of healthy trees in Lincoln Park, Chicago (2007).
