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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 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 [ … ]