A university-community collaboration that uses GIS mapping and spatial analyses to provide fresh and insightful perspectives on social issues.
Syracuse Community Geography works in partnership with community-based organizations and university affiliates to map and spatially analyze topics of concern to Central New York communities. SCG helps communities to identify and address challenges in new ways using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) mapping and other forms of spatial analysis. Projects are data driven and results oriented. Our c
09/25/2014
The Syracuse Grows Benefit Dinner was recently covered by TWC News!
Syracuse Grows Holds Farm to Table Benefit A Central New York not-for-profit group celebrated another successful growing season by hosting its first ever Farm-to-Table Benefit dinner Saturday.
09/18/2014
Who likes farm-fresh produce? If that's you, then check out Syracuse Grow's benefit dinner this Saturday at the Salt City Harvest Farm! There will be a three- course dinner with yummy garden veggies, including these! We hope to see you there. Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/1uWZ1i7
Have you been on communitygeography.org lately? We're posting new maps and data all the time. The best part? It's totally free!
And if you don't find what you're looking for, check out MapSyracuse to create your own!
http://bit.ly/1n3ba1D
03/18/2014
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On March 6, SCG hosted Syracuse Community Geography 2.0, an event to celebrate the redesign of SCG's website, showcase the new products and services we offer and celebrate eight years of successful university-community partnerships.
Photos by Osumi Photography
03/18/2014
Check out The Stand Newspaper's article about the evolution of SCG over the past eight years.
Thank you to all our community partners, SU affiliates and dedicated staffers for helping SCG make a difference in the Central New York area.
http://mysouthsidestand.com/voices/the-evolution-of-syracuse-community-geography/
The Evolution of Syracuse Community Geography | The Stand When one thinks about hunger the first thing that comes to one’s mind isn’t usually mapping. But that was exactly what the precursors of Syracuse Community Geography (SCG) did to study the demand for food pantry supplies in the city at the request of the Samaritan Center, a soup kitchen in the downt...
MapSyracuse is an easy tool that allows you to create customized maps of Syracuse and Onondaga County using more than 100 map layers. Pretty cool, huh?
Click the link to make your own!
http://bit.ly/1n3ba1D
Did you know that you can request a community project right on our website?
Anyone in the community can submit a geographic research and GIS mapping project request. If your project meets our qualifications, we'll take it on!
Find out more here: http://communitygeography.org/request/
Request A Community Project - Syracuse Community Geography All community members are encouraged to submit geographic research and GIS mapping project requests. Project requests are reviewed monthly by the Community Geography advisory committee. Successful requests demonstrate societal benefit. Projects are undertaken on a first come, first served basis. You...
02/14/2014
Have you checked out our website lately?
The redesigned communitygeography.org now offers new resources, new tools and new trainings.
Visit the link to find out more!
http://communitygeography.org
Home - Syracuse Community Geography Syracuse Community Geography works in partnership with community-based organizations and university affiliates to map and spatially analyze topics of concern to Central New York communities. SCG helps communities to identify and address challenges in new ways using GIS (Geographic Information System...
11/22/2013
As a result of a community organization's action in Youngstown, Ohio, a new bill has been passed which forces banks to pay $10,000 in cash bonds for foreclosed properties that remain vacant in an effort to keep property maintained and reduce neighborhood blight. Read about the organization, the bill and its impact here:
http://www.newgeography.com/content/004060-fighting-vacant-property-plague
Fighting the Vacant Property Plague | Newgeography.com The term 'walking away from the property' usually refers to owners who leave a home when they can't make the mortgage payments. In Youngstown, Ohio, it may gain a new meaning: to describe banks that abandon a vacant property in foreclosure, and leave neighbors to cope with the blight. Now banks that...
11/21/2013
In a collaborative effort, city officials and community members in Chicago’s 49th ward determine the funds spent and development projects taken on in their neighborhood together. See how their system works here:
http://nextcity.org/infrastructure/entry/chicago-might-take-participatory-budgeting-citywide
Five Years After Pioneering It in North America, Chicago Might Take Participatory Budgeting... Anna Clark attends participatory budgeting meetings in Chicago’s Rogers Park, the first place on the continent to experiment with the process, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel considers taking it citywide.