A collaborative effort by
MIT Urban Information Systems Group
Metropolitan Area Planning Council
City of Boston Department of Neighborhood Development
The Boston Foundation
With support from the Urban Markets Initiative of the Brookings Institution

Resources

1. The MIT/MAPC/DND/TBF project proposal (April 2004):
"Intelligent Middleware for Understanding Neighborhood Markets"

2. Raj Singh's PhD dissertation (sept. 2004):
"Collaborative Urban Information Systems: A Web Services Approach"

3. The Urban Markets Initiative pilot projects:
http://www.brookings.org/metro/umi.htm

4. Professor Ferreira, Joseph Jr.:
“Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public and Non-profit Agencies that Serve Them," Chapter 7 in High Technology and Low-Income Communities, D. Schon, et al. (editors), MIT Press, 1998.

5. Urban Institute website for National Neighborhood Indicator Partnership:
http://www.urbaninstitute.org/nnip/