The Land Access for Community Gardening and Urban Agriculture in Syracuse interactive map shows the location Syracuse Grows member gardens and accompanying land access information. Urban agriculture provides access to food for [ … ]
In Spring 2026, Syracuse Community Geography (SCG) partnered with Syracuse Grows to host a community workshop and presentation on urban soil health for community gardeners and urban growers. The goal of the workshop was to educate gardeners about soil contaminants in garden spaces and safe gardening practices. SCG interns collected 25 soil samples from 9 different community gardens to test at the [ … ]
In 2023, student interns worked with the Onondaga Earth Corps (OEC) to create maps of OEC’s impact on the Syracuse urban tree canopy and celebrate the organization’s 20th year anniversary. OEC runs a [ … ]
In 2022, Syracuse Community Geography students worked with Paul Harvey, a local urban trail enthusiast, to update a trail map for the Morningside Cultural Trails. The Morningside trail network includes over 7 miles [ … ]
This situationer provides a detailed discussion of the New Clark City (NCC) as an influential project that threatens the communities living within and around its area. Through spatial analysis, this document shows the [ … ]
In 2022, Syracuse Community Geography interns partnered with CNY Fair Housing and SOCPA to create digital shapefiles for municipal zoning in Onondaga County. Shapefiles and Map PDFs are available at the town and [ … ]
Urban gardening and farming increase access to food production, which is a basic principle of food sovereignty. Syracuse currently has 29 active community gardens and urban farms and the Greater Syracuse Landbank has approximately [ … ]
Research is needed to develop sustainable relationships between farmers willing to grow and sell produce, the Syracuse City School District (SCSD), processors, aggregators, and other actors in the greater Farm to School landscape. [ … ]
Syracuse Community Geographers began working with Paul Harvey and neighborhood groups on Syracuse’s eastside to create the Morningside Cultural Trail Maps in 2015. Over time, the number of trail maps have expanded and [ … ]
In spring 2017, the University Neighborhood Preservation Association and the City of Syracuse Department of Parks, Recreation, and Youth Programming partnered with Syracuse Community Geography to conduct a community input study about Barry [ … ]
Water is a vital resource. It benefits the health, growth, and security of a city. Yet for Syracuse, New York, a post-industrial city, water infrastructure, often a peripheral investment, poses a major concern. [ … ]
In Fall 2015, Syracuse Community Geography began a partnership with the Central New York Land Trust (CNYLT) to create a GIS map inventory of the land trust’s nature preserves. CNYLT is a member-driven, [ … ]
CenterState CEO is working with a group of minority community and business leaders to help them launch a Minority Chamber of Commerce within the CNY region (tentatively called the Minority Economic Alliance, or [ … ]
In collaboration with Syracuse Cooperative Federal Credit Union, students in the Spring 2015 Community Geography class conducted a GIS-based analysis to help the credit union better understand its impact on the Syracuse community. [ … ]
In Spring of 2015, Syracuse Community Geography worked in collaboration with the Northeast Hawley Development Association, Inc., a not-for-profit community housing development agency committed to revitalizing and stabilizing Syracuse’s northeast sector. U.S. Census [ … ]
The Onondaga Historical Association (OHA) is dedicated to exploring, communicating, and celebrating Onondaga County’s rich cultural history. Partnering with OHA, students in the Spring 2015 Community Geography course developed creative materials that narrate [ … ]
During the winter of 2014, the Syracuse Community Geography Program partnered with the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) to create a series of maps that visualize the spatial distribution and [ … ]
Northside Urban Partnership is expanding its workforce development programs to reach more Northside residents. Syracuse Community Geography was tasked to identify potential manufacturing employment sites in Central New York. A list of manufacturing sites [ … ]
As a designated refugee resettlement city, the City of Syracuse has welcomed thousands of people from around the world fleeing political persecution, natural disaster and war. Refugees from countries including Bhutan, Burma, and [ … ]
Syracuse Community Geography was approached by the City of Syracuse Parks Department to update and refine their existing GIS files for the city’s 120 parks, community centers, playgrounds, fields, and green spaces. SCG [ … ]
The BRiDGES Tobacco Prevention Team approached Syracuse Community Geography and requested maps that would show the locations of licensed tobacco retailers in Herkimer, Oneida and Madison Counties. Thus, maps that overlay the locations [ … ]
In 2003, the Samaritan Center of Syracuse, NY noticed an issue with food assistance programs in the city. All around Syracuse, food pantries were reporting an increase in demand for supplies. As a [ … ]
A result of the Syracuse Hunger Project’s ongoing work, Syracuse Grows is an organization which aims to lower food access problems by creating and maintaining community gardens. Community gardens provide gardeners with access [ … ]
In Fall 2013, Syracuse Community Geography participated in an initiative spearheaded by FOCUS Greater Syracuse to develop a vision for an age-friendly Central New York. The goal of the project is to develop [ … ]
In 2012, Syracuse Community Geography began offering workshops to representatives of community-based organizations to help them better utilize U.S. Census Bureau data. Recent changes to the decennial census and the emergence of the [ … ]
In April 2013, The Fair Housing Council of Central NY (FHCCNY) requested the help of Syracuse Community Geography to analyze and map census data to further their cause. Based in Syracuse, NY, FHCCNY [ … ]
In spring 2013, students enrolled in the Community Geography course partnered with the Northside Urban Partnership to map the people and businesses of the Near Northside. Northside UP, a community development initiative aimed [ … ]
In spring 2013, students enrolled in the Community Geography course partnered with Child Care Solutions and P.E.A.C.E., Inc., to conduct a geographic analysis of home-based child care and Head Start program availability, demographic [ … ]
In partnership with the Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County (CCE), students in the Spring 2013 Community Geography class conducted a geographic analysis of CCE’s urban forestry efforts in Syracuse, NY. The [ … ]
In partnership with the City of Syracuse Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, students in the Spring 2013 Community Geography class conducted an analysis of housing demolition in Syracuse from 2002-2012. The city had [ … ]
Recent research demonstrates a link between proximity to alcohol outlets and a variety of negative public health and safety outcomes
Redrawing property boundaries required close collaboration with Housing Visions staff and specialized GIS parcel fabric tools. Building new quality and affordable housing is a crucial component of reviving neighborhoods in many U.S. legacy [ … ]
In 2009, the Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) requested assistance mapping oil and gas drilling leased in Onondaga County. At the time, there was concern that the ban on hydrofracking in New [ … ]
In 2007 the Family Literacy Alliance of Greater Syracuse (FLAGS) teamed up with Syracuse Community Geography to examine literacy in Onondaga County. The project aimed to identify, survey and map formal and informal [ … ]
Heavy traffic, inadequate signage, a lack of sidewalks and faded crosswalks created an unsafe environment for children who walk or bike to school.
In 2006, Child Care Solutions partnered with Syracuse Community Geography to determine the geographic accessibility of child care in Onondaga County. They were curious if there were enough child care centers in Onondaga [ … ]