City Planning Case Study

Selecting office sites within a city: The phrase "location, location, location" takes on real meaning.

The data included in this case study provides enough information to effectively plan an office site location in the metro Detroit area. The problem presented in this case study is to locate three offices in the metropolitan Detroit tri-county area from a pool of fifteen possible sites. The office sites are dispersed as follows: five in both Novi and Troy, two in both Berkley and Southfield, and one in Royal Oak. Your assignment includes utilizing the databases provided to select office sites, making the maps you will need to navigate the unfamiliar territory, and defining service areas for the new office sites>Additionally,you will provide a report on the entertainment facilities in the area for the employees who will be transferred.To run the exercises in this case study,it is essential that you have the ArcView Network Analyst extension loaded on your computer.

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This case study requires a basic understanding of geographic information systems and ArcView 3.x.If you are unfamiliar with either of these,we recommend you read our Training Manual and complete the accompanying exercises before proceeding with this case study.

• Document (planning.PDF - 3.79Mb) of this case study in Adobe Acrobat Reader format.

• Data used in  this case study (Planning.zip - 10.9 Mb)

• Network Analyst (Licensed Software),  an extension for ArcView that contains useful spatial operation tools. It is developed, collected, or modified by Mike DeLaune, Oregon Department of Forestry.

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This case study developed by W/SA with contributions by the following;

• Dr.Yichun Xie, Director, IGRE at Eastern Michigan University.
• Beverly Hunter, Consultant to W/SA