North Lawndale Property Monitoring System
Spring 1999
North Lawndale community development organizations that seek to revitalize
their community through new and rehabilitated housing and commercial developments
are hampered by the lack of necessary property data. In an attempt to
obtain community information and to utilize and share the information
effectively, four North Lawndale community organizations - Agency Metropolitan
Program Services, H.I.C.A., Inc., Lawndale Business and Local Development
Corporation, and Lawndale Christian Development Corporation - have formed
a partnership to share in the development and results of a computer-based
property monitoring system. They have asked the City Design Center to
develop the system on the Internet. Each organization will use and enhance
the property information system for its own program needs. Steeve Kidd,
Executive Director of AMPS, explains that “The North Lawndale community
partners in this initiative believe that this system is essential in our
organizations’ ability to work effectively in our community. This
system will allow us to monitor neighborhood change and plan for future
development.”
The City Design Center has begun to develop the mapping framework for
the property monitoring system. Utilizing the Geographic Information System
(GIS) program, the web-based system will contain mapped and tabular information
on parcel data, assessor’s property data, city-owned vacant land,
housing court data, historic landmarks, street information, institutions,
minority-owned businesses, industrial employers, and aerial photographs.
It will provide the North Lawndale collaborating organizations and residents
with information about community conditions and development proposals
that they could not otherwise access.
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Map of Chicago with project location
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City Design Center Affiliated Faculty and Staff
Robert Bruegmann, Professor, Department of Art History
Lin Dou, Resident Librarian, UIC Library
Diane Farley, Program Coordinator, City Design Center
George Hemmens, Professor, College of Urban Planning and Policy, and
Co-Director, City Design Center
John Shuler, Documents Librarian, UIC Library
Alex Stern, Associate Director, Adjunct Associate Professor School of
Architecture, Technology Coordinator College of Architecture and the Arts
Collaborating Organizations
Agency Metropolitan Program Services (AMPS)
H.I.C.A., Inc.
Lawndale Business and Local Development Corporation (LBLDC)
Lawndale Christian Development
Corporation (LCDC)
Funding
UI Advanced Learning Technologies in Higher Education (ALTHE)
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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