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West Philadelphia Data and Information Resources (West Philly Data) serves as a channel for information sharing, community building and economic development within the West Philadelphia area.

West Philly Data supports the development of an advanced information infrastructure for providing information about community-based projects, housing studies, and policy research while facilitating information flow to all users.

Developed in collaboration with the Center for Community Partnerships, the University of Pennsylvania Library System, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wharton GIS Laboratory, InfoR incorporates publicly accessible information from sources including:

the Census Bureau
municipal records and corporate or civic associations
on-going individual research such as the Center for Community Partnerships' Directory of Research University of Pennsylvania data related to Philadelphia (e.g. the School of Social Work's social asset maps)

Available to researchers, community leaders and public officials, this collection provides numeric, cartographic and text-based data. InfoR enables users to combine information on housing type and tenure, assessments, education, health, income, employment, crime, environmental conditions and other factors. Data is accessible by neighborhood, tract, and zip code boundaries. This data may be used to link health, education and housing factors in a specific school cluster, allowing researchers and community groups to assess a correlation between school performance and living situations. Using complete data sets for a specific neighborhood creates opportunities for university-community collaboration to develop strategic plans for comprehensive community renewal. Similar techniques and collaborative approaches were used to great advantage in such places as the severely depressed South Bronx in the early 1990s.

The boundaries and names of West Philadelphia follow the designation developed by the Philadelphia Police Department. Our service is divided into eight main categories: People (demographics), Housing, Health, Education, Reports, History, Community Services, and Links. Feel free to drop us your questions and comments by going to our Contact Us page.

West Philadelphia Data and Information Resources (West Philly Data) serves as a channel for information sharing, community building and economic development within the West Philadelphia area. West Philly Data supports the development of an advanced information infrastructure for providing information about community-based projects, housing studies, and policy research while facilitating information flow to all users. Developed in collaboration with the Center for Community Partnerships, the University of Pennsylvania Library System, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wharton GIS Laboratory, InfoR incorporates publicly accessible information from sources including: the Census Bureau municipal records and corporate or civic associations on-going individual research such as the Center for Community Partnerships' Directory of Research University of Pennsylvania data related to Philadelphia (e.g. the School of Social Work's social asset maps) Available to researchers, community leaders and public officials, this collection provides numeric, cartographic and text-based data. InfoR enables users to combine information on housing type and tenure, assessments, education, health, income, employment, crime, environmental conditions and other factors. Data is accessible by neighborhood, tract, and zip code boundaries. This data may be used to link health, education and housing factors in a specific school cluster, allowing researchers and community groups to assess a correlation between school performance and living situations. Using complete data sets for a specific neighborhood creates opportunities for university-community collaboration to develop strategic plans for comprehensive community renewal. Similar techniques and collaborative approaches were used to great advantage in such places as the severely depressed South Bronx in the early 1990s. The boundaries and names of West Philadelphia follow the designation developed by the Philadelphia Police Department. Our service is divided into eight main categories: People (demographics), Housing, Health, Education, Reports, History, Community Services, and Links. Feel free to drop us your questions and comments by going to our Contact Us page. Articles about WPD Opening the Door: Technology and the Development of University-Community Partnership (PDF) a recent report by SEEDCO featuring InfoR as one of the models that other university should (pages 30 - 35) -Oct 2002 West Philly by the numbers on the Web Penn Current Online - Oct 31, 2002 Providing Planning and Research Data to the Penn Community and Beyond GSFA Penn in Ink A Keystroke from West Philadelphia The Daily Pennsylvanian - Aug 2, 2002		PROJECT TEAM Sidney Wong, Director Yang Liang Chua, Assoc. Director Susanna Corson, Research Assistant Ellyn Liu, Research Assistant Neil Desai, First Steps Design, Web Designer other affiliates PARTNERS Center for Community Partnerships Cory Bowman Ira Harkavy Joann Weeks Cartographic Modeling Lab Dennis P. Culhane Dana C. Tomlin M.L. Wernecke Simi Octania-Pole Wharton GIS Lab Susan Wachter Paul Amos SPONSORS W.K. Kellogg Foundation U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development - Office of University Partnerships SUPPORTERS Penn Library Penn School of Design Department of City & Regional Planning
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