DISTRICTS, AREAS, MACROREGIONS

Cultivating "Natural" Cultural Districts

This policy brief—a product of the SIAP Culture and Community Revitalization Collection, in collaboration with Reinvestment Fund---uses existing research on urban culture and community arts to make a case for culture-based neighborhood revitalization. The brief defines and illustrates "natural" cultural districts, highlights the synergy of social diversity and cultural engagement, and draws les...

Unbiased Congressional Districts

This paper presents a strategy for dividing a state into congressional districts using a modified version of Smith and Ryan’s recursive shortest splitline algorithm (2007). Our strategy reduces the cost of the computation by approximating the population of a ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) as a point mass at its population centroid. If there are N ZCTAs in the state with E total edges, and k di...

Ranking Sustainability of Urban Districts through Factor and Cluster Analyses, Case Study: Municipal Districts of Isfahan

Soil As contamination and its risk assessment in areas near the industrial districts of Chenzhou City, Southern China.

In order to assess soil As contamination and potential risk for human, soil, paddy rice, vegetable and human hair samples from the areas near the industrial districts in Chenzhou, southern China were sampled and analyzed. The results showed that the anthropogenic industrial activities have caused in local agricultural soils to be contaminated with As in a range of 11.0-1217 mg/kg. The GIS-based...

Assessment of malaria high risk areas by using RS & GIS technologies in Rohtak and Mewat districts of Haryana

The presence of mosquito vectors Anopheles culicifacies and Anopheles stephensi in high numbers together with other malaria causing factors like poor drainage system, lack of knowledge about malaria, low socio-economic conditions etc has made malaria a major health burden in Rohtak and Mewat districts of Haryana. The primary objective of the study was to prepare thematic maps of six selected vi...