The Housing Policy Research Program at the Urban Center of Cleveland State University produced the maps and charts used by the NEO SSEP. Similar material is being produced for all other major metropolitan areas in Ohio by Ohio Urban University Program member institutions. These studies, and their full color maps showing economic and social data, can be a boon to local groups trying to show the costs of sprawl.
The source for the maps and charts in the NEO SSEP is, Tax Base Disparity: Development of Greater Cleveland’s Sapphire Necklace, Dec. 5, 1997, http://urban.csuohio.edu/~ucweb/pubs/sapphire.htm
At the bottom of this page is a link to an example of focusing on interests of an geographically based audience through the use of economic maps of Ohio regions provided by CSU’s Urban Center which is an Ohio Urban University Program member institution. http://cua6.csuohio.edu/~uup/uup.htm
Look for the soon-to-be posted report The State of Ohio’s Regions: Charting a course for the Future, which was held on October 6, 1998. http://cua6.csuohio.edu/~uup/uup-evnt.htm
Ohio UUP Contact: If you need the names of Ohio UUP institutions and contacts you may get a list from Kathryn Hexter: Kathy@urban.csuohio.edu
Presenting Ohio UUP Economic maps and charts:
The Housing Policy Research Program provides the largest portion of the core facts used by the NEO SSEP. This is followed in amount of factual backing provided by EcoCity Cleveland, an environmental journal; the Ohio Farmland Preservation Taskforce report; the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission and other government and non-government sources.
The following link is an example of portraying the situation of a specific community by using maps and charts depicting economic data. Here specific data about the city of Cleveland Heights is used to situate this community among the regional economic trends. Similar comparisons can be done for any community that is portrayed in similar maps and charts presently being produced by UUP institutions for most major Ohio metropolitan areas.
The use of these maps can also be customized for interest-based presentations.
Usually the maps are used sparingly, one-to-three per a presentation. Each map can portray a wide variety of things that relate to the hearts and minds and pocketbooks of specific audiences.
Presented in the link below is a script made of captions for a complete set of maps and charts provided in Tax Base Disparity written by the NEO SSEP. Except where noted, the captions provided in this are specific to Cleveland Heights Ohio.
In the NEO SSEP there is an attempt to couple each figure used with poignant photographs. This way, multiple views of the same thing are provided. This application provides for a heart felt picture to be associated with a technical detail. The better to remember the technical detail by.
For most audiences, the maps and charts are used sparingly because each figure provides a "burst" of data. At an initial viewing the typical audience wants to grope with only so much technical data.
The material in the following link can provide a full set of details for audiences that have an expressed interest in the details as they impact their community or interest group.
Community (or interest group) leaders, who seek education to prepare for a brainstorming session about improving their community, would be such an audience.
[ Link to CSU HPRP Charts and Graphs ]
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NEO SSEP release of January 17, 1999 - Lee Batdorff, author and webmaster, 216-321-9152: neossep_ohsc@adva.com