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 |            Part I: Spatial Information and Database Management | 
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 | 1 |  |  |  | Introduction to the Course, Oracle, and SQLplus
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 | 2 |  |  |  | Relational Database Management, Geospatial Data |  |  |  | - Worboys , Michael F. GIS: A Computing Perspective. London: Taylor & Francis, 1995. Pp. 45-67.
 - Trimble, J. Harvey, Jr., and David Chappell.  A Visual Introduction to SQL. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989. Chapters 1, 3, and 4.
 
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 | 3 |  |  |  | Handling One-to-Many Relations - Grouping and Aggregation |  |  |  | - Trimble and Chappell. Chapters 5, 7, and 8.
 
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 | 4 |  |  |  | Advanced SQL - Subqueries and Complex joins |  |  |  | - Trimble and Chappell. Chapter 6.
 
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 | 5 |  |  |  | Distributed Access to Parcel-Level City Databases |  |  |  | - Zoning variance database help pages
 - Ferreira, Joseph Jr. "Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public and Non-profit Agencies that Serve Them." Forthcoming Chapter 7 in MIT Press Book from Spring 1996 DUSP colloquium on High Technology and Low-Income Communities.
 - Top-down and bottom-up strategies for ‘cleaning’ official administrative databases
 - Using lookup tables to interpret read-only city data
 - Strategies for encoding, accumulating, and utilizing local knowlege
 
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 | 6 |  |  |  | The Zoning Variance Database & Advanced Query Construction Due: Problem Set 1  |  |  |  | - Trimble and Chappell. Chapters 9 and 11.
 
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 | 7 |  |  |  | Referential Integrity and Relational Database Design |  |  |  | - Worboys. Pp. 68-84 (Optional: pp. 84-95).
 
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 | 8 |  |  |  | Querying Oracle from a Client Application and Databases on Web |  |  |  |  | 
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 |                 Part II: Integrating Mapping and DBMS | 
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 | 9 |  |  |  | Adding Z and Integrating Mapping with RDBMS Tools I Due: Problem Set 2  |  |  |  | - Flowerdew, R. "Spatial data integration." Chap. 24 in Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications. Vol. 1. Edited by D. J. Maguire, M. F. Goodchild, and D. W. Rhind. 1991. [In Reader]
 - Craig. "Why we couldn't get the data we wanted." Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) 4, 2 (1992). [In Reader]
 
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 | 10 |  |  |  | Integrating Mapping with RDBMS Tools II |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 11 |  |  |  | Examination |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 12 |  |  |  | Using ArcView Spatial Analyst |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 13 |  |  |  | Using ArcView Spatial Analyst with Oracle Data Due: Problem Set 3  |  |  |  |  | 
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