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Events and Announcements
1. Press Kick-Off
http://www.10000friends.org/downloads/CISFinalPress_Release.pdf
University-Community Collaborative Partners With City;
Unveils Web Site To Aid Community-Development Organizations CMU
News, December 4 2006
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2006/december/dec4PNCIS.shtml
2. Recent newspaper articles
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Database a new
tool for city: CIS can show trouble spots, as well as
neighborhood pluses December 21, 2005 By Diana Nelson Jones,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05355/625569-53.stm
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Project to
centralize local information: This will include U.S. Census data
that students and staff at the University of Pittsburgh's Center
for Social and Urban Research are including. "We make census
data available to community and neighborhood groups, and we were
interested in a neighborhood information system," said Sabina
Deitrick, the center's director. By Kim Leonard TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/print_348083.html
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Putting neighborhoods on the map:
Organizations collaborate on developing a Neighborhood
Information System Pittsburgh Business Times - August 13,
2004 by
Tim Schooley
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2004/08/16/focus1.html?t=printable
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Political
infighting mars East End neighborhoods: …There, half of all
buildings are subject to tax delinquency and a quarter are
vacant, both more than twice the citywide levels, according to
the Community Information System database set up by neighborhood
improvement organizations… June 20, 2006 Post Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06171/699644-53.stm
Pitt Partnering With City, Carnegie Mellon, Others
On Mapping System to Help Revitalize Communities
:PittChronicle, December, 11 2006
http://www.umc.pitt.edu/media/documents/pc061211.pdf
City offers 'one stop' for community data By
Bonnie Pfister
TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, December 5, 2006
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_482711.html
Contact Sungsoo Hwang at the University Center
for Social and Urban Research at
shwang@pitt.edu or 412-624-3092 to reserve
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