---

 Biographical Sketch & Bibliography

William Huxhold
Department Chair/Professor
Department of Urban Planning

hux@uwm.edu

 

 

Education
University of Dayton, M.S., 1973
Northwestern University, B.S., 1968

 

Teaching Area
Geographic Information Systems.  

Memberships
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association,
(President, 1984-85)
Wisconsin Land Information Association
University consortium on Geographic Information Science
(President, 2000)

 

Academic and Professional Honors
Horwood Distinguished Service Award, Urban and
Regional Information Systems Association, 1999
Distinguished Service Award, Wisconsin Land
Information Association, 1993
Leadership Award, Urban and Regional Information
Systems Association, 1987  

 

Teaching Experience
A series of three courses on geographic information systems (GIS) since 1988:
Introduction to Urban GIS for Planning
(URB PLAN 945-791) 
Using Urban GIS for Planning (URB PLAN 945-792)
Applied Projects in Urban GIS (URB PLAN 945-793)  

 

Professional Experience
MIS Project Director, City of Milwaukee -
Implemented GIS at the City in 1976  

 

Research Interests
Implementation and use of geographic information systems in local governments. He has studied the organizational and institutional barriers to adoption of GIS technology and the human resource needs of agencies contemplating a GIS project. In addition, he has an interest in the use of GIS by the public and community-based organizations for addressing public information needs associated with solving problems in urban neighborhoods.

 

Publications (Selected)
Huxhold and Fowler, forthcoming. ArcCity: Exercises in Using ArcGIS to build and use a geographic information system in local government, ESRI Press.
Huxhold and Smitha Vijayan, 2001. GIS County User's Guide: Laboratory Exercises in Geographic Information Systems Using ARC/INFO Version 7, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.
Huxhold, (ed), 2000. Model Job Descriptions for GIS Professionals, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (www.urisa.org)
Huxhold, et al, 1997. GIS County User Guide: Laboratory Exercises in Urban GIS, Oxford University Press
Huxhold and Levinsohn, 1995. Managing Geographic Information Systems Projects, Oxford University Press
Huxhold, 1991. An Introduction to Urban Geographic Information Systems, Oxford University Press
Ghose, R. and W.E. Huxhold, 2001. "Role of Local Contextual Factors in Building Public Participation GIS: The Milwaukee Experience", Cartography and Geographic Information Science Journal, vol. 28, no.3, 2001, 195-208.
Ramasubramanian, L., Huxhold, W., J. Albrecht, and C. Ajirotutu, 2001. "Analyzing Urban Indicators Using GIS: Building Local Capacity in Developing Countries through Participatory Research", Proceedings on the 7th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM).
Huxhold, 2001. "The State of Certification". A description of the proposed URISA Certification program for GIS professionals, published in two periodicals: URISA News, Issue 186 (November/December 2001) and Directions Magazines (www.directionsmag.com).
Huxhold and Joyce Witebsky, 2000. Indicators of Housing and Neighborhood Quality: Walker's Point, Community Development Block Grant Area, and the City of Milwaukee: 1993-1997, Housing Research Institute, Center for Urban Initiatives and Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Huxhold and Gregory Squires, 1999. Indicators of Housing and Neighborhood Quality, The Lindsay Heights Area, Community Development Block Grant Area, and the City of Milwaukee: 1993-1997, Housing Research Institute, Center for Urban Initiatives and Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

 

Service
Administrator of the UWM - Certificate in Urban Geographic Information Systems Program
Professional Courses in Geographic Information Systems
Editorial Board: URISA JOURNAL, GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Chair, URISA GSI Certification Committee

 

Faculty Research & Work