NiCi
neighborhood indicators for
community identity

university of washington
department of geography
geography four.sixty.three

"Social empowerment is gained through increased access to resources needed for household production and reproduction, political empowerment through access to decision-making processes, and psychological empowerment through an enhanced sense of efficacy."
Sarah A. Elwood, 2002

project description
NICI is a collaborative project supported through the University of Washington, Department of Geography course 463 and Sustainable Seattle, Neighborhood Indicators project.
Sustainable Seattle is currently working with three neighborhoods in Seattle: North Beacon Hill, Capitol Hill, and Greenwood/Phinney Ridge to develop a shared understanding of neighborhood-level sustainability indicators and collect community data using ComNET.


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