The Community Geography Project of IMS augments its work for communities in the Portland region through an ongoing series of GIS and Asset Mapping PSU Senior Capstone courses. Multi-disciplinary teams of students are introduced to issues that community partners bring to us that require a better understanding of community assets and the possible connections among them. Students do research, analyses (including GIS analysis), and develop presentations, reports, and GIS products that communicate their findings to the partners and community members at large.
Community partners have included: Neighborhood Pride Team; the Caring Community of North Portland; Southeast Portland Caring Community; Portland's Bureau of Parks and Recreation; the Regional Arts and Culture Council; the Portland Farmers Market; the Center for Public Participation (PSU); Southeast Uplift; and North Portland Neighborhood Services in partnership with Multnomah County Health Department and Kaiser Permanente's Healthy Eating/Active Living Initiative.
Examples of reports generated for these projects are available below.
Submissions from 2016
Tree Inventory Report: SoMa EcoDistrict, Charles Batey, Aaron Dole, Dylan Englin, Krista Fanucchi, Matthew Hart, Owen Larson, Evan Skora, Rachel Tippery, Derek Welle, Timothy Roszel, Emily Smith, and Matthew Zinik
Submissions from 2015
Tree Inventory Report: SOMA District, Cody Graham, Jeremy Bigelow, Gary Shaw, Andrew Bailey, Katelynn Bisso, David Dunnington, Joshua Emmons, Morgan Farber, Cody Graham, Ryan Guidry, Max Joyner, Roger Klingelhoffer, Jonathan Newman, Nicholas Scarpelli, and Geoffrey Duh
Submissions from 2014
Factors of Inclusion and Exclusion to Housing: an Exploratory Study, Jonathan Abbott, Whitman A. Bouton, Jordan Christensen, Brian DiCarlo, Rylan Firth, Erin Mercer, Erica Molina Rodriguez, Andrew Sneddon, Chad Tucker, Brea Walters, and Austin Zeitz
Submissions from 2013
Aging in our Communities: Six Case Studies of Neighborhood Walkability in Clackamas and Washington Counties, Oregon and Clark County, Washington, Reema Alhamidi, Edelina Naydenova, Katherine Dahlin, Jason Rush, Margarita Gonzales, Kevin Ryan, Laura Harmon, Marcel Schaeffer, Bianca Iliesi, Laura Silverman, Brady Jones, John Todoroff, Megan Mulsoff Brown, and Adrian Wells
Finding Nature in Your Neighborhood: A Field Mapping Protocol for Community Based Assessment of Greenspace Access, James Bryant, Mark Cordell, Garry Deihl, Abel Gebrezgi, Tamara Layden, Thomas Arenas Marshall, Kathryn Newman, Amy Pitts-Lore, and Leah Sobieck
Portland Region Parks: Measuring Equity in Access, Harold Shields, Sindre Fredsvik, Jonah Horn, Robert Kalei Miller, Cameron Hill, Anna Petry, Daniel Mogelinski, Stephen P. Kyle, Jenna Knobloch, Jonah Horn, Henrich Biorn, Andew Wyatt, James Bedell, Evan Kent, and Adrien Young
Submissions from 2011
People in Action for Change: Photovoice Project, Will Anderson, Ian Bonham, Jason Christensen, and Robin Davis
PDX Streetverve: Examining Portland Neighborhoods, Kale Brewer, Teresa Hanna, Brian Slaughter, Krystle Alconcel, Zoe Richerson, Kevin McGowan, Ryan Bueler, Yolanda Sanchez, Andy Landolt, Scott Flodin, Jonathan Albano, Brandon Christensen, and Jesse Crofutt
Submissions from 2010
Arts and Culture Asset Mapping, Haley Buckbee, Sara Busco, John Chavers, and Henry Cook
Submissions from 2009
Multnomah County Youth Tobacco Access Report, Sara Avishan, Cameron Bremer, Mike Conley, Chad Dettlaff, Ben FitzSimons, Ben Harper, Jennifer Jensen, Shawn Lenker, Dan Manders, and Mateo Meazell
Submissions from 2008
Getting to Know Lents: A Thematic Atlas of Healthy Eating and Active Living, Allison Adcox, Marina Carter, Allen Davis, and Jonathan Gray
Submissions from 2007
Healthy Eating and Active Living in North Portland: Asset Mapping with G.I.S., Arthur Aldridge, Susan M. Anderson, Mike Aspros, Lisa Barnes, Matt Bergstrom, Ambra Bingham, Ernest Bork, Sara Cottam, Jeremy Crawford, Shawna Graber, Jonathan Jubera, Patrick Louisel, Rebecca Symonds, and Eric Wright
Healthy Eating Active Living: A Project of the Spring 2007 North Portland Asset Mapping Capstone, Andrew Clarke, Melissa Lindsey, Greg Waite, and Robert Y. Lee
Submissions from 2006
Montavilla: Mapping Community Assets, Adrien Allred, Ann Shaw Lee, Chris Stahlberg, and Eugene Nucci
The 2006 Guide to Local Food Resources: Portland Region:, Liz Mahon, Pressy Sankaran, Ann Shaw, and Russell Theodore Holzinger
Submissions from 2005
A Richer Harvest [toward a regional strategy for Portland area farmers markets], John Chambers, Christopher Clancy, Aaron Deggs, and Brandon Fessler
Submissions from 2004
Urban Agriculture: Asset Mapping Capstone, Lina Bondar, Benjamin Freeman, Garrett Helser, and Olivia Jennings
Regional Public Involvement Training and Education, Kelley Martin, Miriah Page, Cameron Barry, and Phillip Hanshew
Submissions from 2003
2004 Portland Metro Area Arts Atlas, Christopher Ashley, Casey Bentz, Paul Cone, Rennie Dunn, Betty Groth, Mark Larsen, Jason A. Long, Nathan D. Martin, Brian McGuirk, Michael Morgon, and Jessica Troutman
Submissions from 1999
Vanport Interpretive Signage Project, Portland State University