Built Environment Library

• Library for School of Architecture, Planning, and Geomatics and the Department of Construction Economics and Management

• Located in the Centlivres Building on Upper Campus, across from Leslie Social (see map)

Three dedicated GIS computers in the BEL Technical Library

(located on the South end of the library)

Cape Town Municipality GIS data of the city of Cape Town from 1998 until 2012

Tutorials for identifying and extracting data are available on each GIS computer desktop

Example of GIS in student work - Geomatics Masters Thesis:

THE USE OF GIS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FULLY EMBEDDED PREDICTIVE FIRE MODEL (Bolelang H. Sibolla 2009)

Other examples of GIS in student work:

• GIS-based decision support approach for selecting a new landfill site for the city of Cape Town (Kimani, Gichobi Justin 2006).

• Conceptual design of a GIS-based land inventory model for urban informal settlement land management (Yirenkyi, Samuel Yaw 2000).

• Incorporating local participation and GIS in assessing flood vulnerability in informal settlements : Masiphumelele case study (Tyler, Rebecca 2011).

Resources available in BELStatistical Analysis of Geographic Information: with ArcView GIS and ArcGIS

By David W. S. Wong

GIS for Landscape Architects

By Karen C. Hanna

Hypothetical City Workbook: Exercises, Spreadsheets, and GIS Data to Accompany Urban Land Use Planning

By Edward J. Kaiser