Joseph Ferreira
Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research
Head, Urban Information Systems Group
Room 9-532
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
URL: http://web.mit.edu/dusp/uis/www/people/Joseph.htm
Email: jf@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 253-7410
Current Research
GIS and interactive spatial analysis tools for modeling urban spatial structure and land use and transportation planning interactions; sustainable information infrastructures for supporting urban and regional planning, decision support systems for assessing and managing risk
Selected Publications
"Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communitie and the Public and Non-profit Agencies that Serve Them," Chapter 7 in High Technology and Low-Income Communities, MIT Press, 1997, Schon, Mitchell, Sanyal (editors).http://web.mit.edu/sap/www/high-low/7ferreira.html
"Distributed GIS for Monitoring and Modeling Urban Air Quality," with C-H Yeang and Ayman Ismail, Proceedings of Intl Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Venice, (1999).
Recent Classes
11.188 Urban Planning and Social Science Laboratory Fall 09
11.520 Workshop on Geographic Information Systems Fall 09
11.521 Spatial Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems Spring 10
11.522 Research Seminar on Urban Information Systems (UIS) Fall 09
11.523 Fundamentals of Spatial Database Management Spring 10
11.524 Advanced Geographic Information Systems Project Spring 10
Recent Awards
2002 Leadership Award from the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) for demonstrating exemplary leadership to URISA and creativity, innovation, and dedicated support of URISA programs
Additional Information
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