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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

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Timeline

Phase I (complete):
project planning, data sharing agreements and test services, baseline client interviews, system design, conceptual paper

Phase II (complete):
system development, advisory board meetings and demonstrations, accumulation of ‘local knowledge’, planning for the Spring phase of, project website development with discussion forum and (limited) system demonstration

Phase III (complete):
winter workshop; system testing throughout Spring via class workshop with MAPC and community clients; two or three theses on system design, ‘main street’ evaluation model, institutional analysis, and system evaluation

Phase IV:
system rewrite, documentation, installation at MAPC and/or MassGIS equipment, papers and conference presentations, advisory board meeting

Phase V:
outreach, evaluation follow-up, institutional recommendations, partnership expansion