Mapping LA
MAPPING LA, Marcela Oliva, Director
“Mapping LA is predicated on the notion that knowledge is power and information is change. The use of GIS technology has the potential to reveal relationships that underline each unique neighborhood. Furthermore, the nature of its graphical output - the map, can provide a highly effective nonverbal vehicle to communicate.
Mapping LA includes the community perspective by using GIS spatial database that can be utilized by residents for describing, evaluating and prescribing what they believe is desirable in their neighborhoods taking advantage of regional talents and persons interest for each community.
Mapping LA helps the neighborhood be described through the people’s experiences of the people that lives in the community. They manipulate and build a new and unique layer representing their own perceptions and options.
Mapping LA has the analytical potential and the spatial explicitness of geographic information systems (GIS) can be a powerful tool bridging the gap between resident comprehension and expression of their neighborhoods and therefore go a long way in making neighborhood planning more contextual and useful.”
Cross-Secting LA is a dynamic mapping system of Central Los Angeles that utilizes an unique blending of local community experience and new media technologies. Without the ability to demarcate direction within the emerging complexity that is at the core of Los Angeles, local communities and their members are left powerless in an increasingly globalized urban experience.
Modeled on a system of living, active layers of information, this project delivers a thoroughly new conception of Los Angeles: a composite view of the cultural, socioeconomic, ecological, and historical currents that drive the post-industrial city. Cross-secting LA seeks to empower localized communities by delivering an open source mapping system as well as a forum for dialog and education, locally and nationwide.”
Los Angeles Trade Tech College, Architecture and Environmental Design
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