Collaborative Research -- Visualizing and Exploring United States Urban and Rural Social Change, 1790 - 2000 -- Interactive Multimedia and Web Based Tools

社会学（86）这是纽约市立大学和加州大学洛杉矶分校的合作项目。它正在开发多媒体和基于网络的可视化和地图软件工具，这些工具将描绘美国纽约和洛杉矶两个主要大都市地区的发展和变化。它建立在一个项目的基础上，该项目创建了基于网络的地图工具，使用人口普查和其他数据来检查纽约市自1910年以来的变化，以一种简化教师为学生和其他人创建课程练习和体验的方式。加州大学洛杉矶分校开发的多媒体工具增强了网络组件，使虚拟社区可视化，以及方便地访问文本、图片和视频图像，以说明各种重要的社会学概念和主题。这些虚拟社区可以将3d动画与现实环境相结合，创造一个由地理区域的代表性建筑、地标和社区组成的互动城市文脉。首先模拟当前的邻域，然后在几个较早的时期重新创建它。学生们能够“参观”和探索这些社区，并使用地图软件，了解这些特定的社区如何“适应”纽约或洛杉矶更广泛的地区，同时探索交通或民族和种族的变化，例如。纽约市立大学和加州大学洛杉矶分校正在共同开发这些补充工具，并通过CD-ROM在网上广泛分发，同时我们还将出版一本本科教材：《纽约和洛杉矶：政治、社会和文化》，该书将于2002年中后期由芝加哥大学出版社出版。学生和其他人可以使用这些材料来研究和理解这两个主要大都市在人口、种族、民族血统、家庭地位、住房和生活条件、收入和财富方面发生的巨大变化。正在开发的相关练习允许学生比较和对比两个地区的增长，探索经济和种族不平等的变化模式，并研究纽约和洛杉矶的移民历史以及城市和郊区最近移民群体的移民路径。其他的演习则集中在两个地区的职业结构、教育制度、社会福利、骚乱、艺术界人士的位置和状况等方面。（我们也在探索如何将这些工具推广到其他地区。）这些材料正在PI的家庭校园和美国其他各种学院和大学的课程中进行试点测试。在专业会议上以及在纽约市立大学和加州大学洛杉矶分校安排的讲习班正在协助其他机构的教师使用这些材料。

Sociology (86) This is collaborative project at CUNY-Queens and UCLA. It is developing multimedia and web-based visual and map enabled software tools that will depict the growth and change in two major metropolitan areas in the United States, New York and Los Angeles. It builds upon a project that created web-based map enabled tools to examine change in New York City from 1910 using Census and other data, in a way that eases faculty creation of curricular exercises and experiences for students and others. The web component is being augmented by multi-media tools developed at UCLA that allow the visualization of virtual neighborhoods, as well as easy access to text, pictures, and video images to illustrate a variety of important sociological concepts and themes. These virtual neighborhoods make it possible to incorporate 3-D animation with realistic environments creating an interactive urban context composed of representative buildings, landmarks, and neighborhoods of the geographic area. The current neighborhood is simulated, and then it is recreated for several earlier periods. The students are able to "visit" and explore these neighborhoods and, using the mapping software, understand how these specific neighborhoods "fit" into the wider area of New York or Los Angeles, while exploring transportation or ethnic and racial change, for example.CUNY and UCLA are developing these complementary tools in common and distributing them widely over the web, by CD-ROM, and in unison with an undergraduate textbook we are publishing: "New York and Los Angeles: Politics Society and Culture," forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in mid to late 2002. Students and others can use these materials to examine and understand the dramatic changes in population, race, ethnic ancestry, family status, housing and living conditions, and income and wealth that have occurred in these two major metropolises. Related exercises that are being developed allow students to compare and contrast the growth of the two regions, to explore the changing patterns of economic and ethnic inequality, and to study the immigration history of New York and Los Angeles and the migration paths of recent immigrant groups in the cities and the suburbs. Other exercises are focusing on occupational structure, educational systems, social welfare, riots, and the location and situation of those in the artistic fields in the two regions. (We are also exploring how to generalize these tools to other locales.) The materials are being pilot tested at the PI's home campuses and in courses at a variety of other colleges and universities in the United States. Workshops scheduled at professional meetings and at CUNY and UCLA are assisting faculty at other institutions in using these materials.