Acknowledgements
Financial support for this project came from the Geography and Regional Science Program of the National Science Foundation (Early Career Grant Award No. BCS-0652141), "Transforming the Politics of Place: GIS, Knowledge Production, and Community-Based Organizations in Urban Governance". Principal Investigator, Sarah A. Elwood, University of Washington, Department of Geography.
Sarah and the rest of the research team wish to acknowledge
the invaluable assistance and support of colleagues from the University of Arizona's
Department of Geography &
Regional Development and the Drachman Institute; and from DePaul's
Department of Geography, Monsignor
John J. Egan Urban Center, and Irwin
W. Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning. We're
particularly grateful for the ongoing time, commitment, and enthusiasm
of staff, board members and neighborhood residents from the Near
Northwest Neighborhood Network and the West Humboldt Park Family
and Community Development Council.
Community projects undertaken in Chicago in the first year of the
project could not have been completed without the hard work of DePaul
students in Geography 242 (Spring 2003), Geography 333 (Winter 2004),
and Geography 395 (Spring 2004). Community projects undertaken in
Tucson and Chicago could not have been completed without the hard work of
University of Arizona students in Geography416/516D (Spring 2005) and
Geography 416/516C (Spring 2006) .
- University of Washington: Man Wang and Milissa Orzolek.
- University of Arizona: John Baldridge, Nicholas Rattray, Gary Christopherson, Scott Whitlock, Corky Poster, and Marilyn Robinson.
- DePaul University: Michael Bennett, John Foster, Nandhini Gulasingam, Jennifer Hampton, David Jabon, and Patrick McHaffie; and to 2003-2004 research assistants Grant Garstka, Jennifer Grant, Allan Kempson, and Danny Shields.