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"""GIS for the Urban Environment"" is a useful tool for all students and practitioners who want to learn more about how they might apply GIS to urban planning, public health, urban environmental assessment, hazard and emergency management, geographic analysis, or sustainable community development. The exercises and case studies in the book present clear illustrations of GIS usage in contemporary cities and urban regions through examples of real-life applications. ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo 9 is required to complete the exercises in this book. Earlier software releases are not compatible. The CD included with this book contains the data used in the exercises."

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Juliana Maantay is a professor at Lehman College, City University of New York, where she teaches GIS and environmental geography and also directs the GIS program. She was formerly an environmental analyst and urban planner with the City of New York and held senior planning positions in the private sector before that. John Ziegler is founder and president of Space Track Inc., a New York City GIS consulting company founded in 1988. Previously, he was the New York regional director of the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) and deputy regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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