Local research and mapping
+Local Commons index
Community research and profiling
- Community research toolkit- Arvac
- How to research your local area- British Library
- Data collecting in your neighbourhood- presentation from Locality
- Community resilience resources- interests.me
Asset mapping
- Asset mapping and civic creativity from the Creative Citizen Unbound
- Community asset mapping- Factsheet from Brighter Futures together. Northumbria University.
- Community mapping toolkit- Preston council
- Mapping Assets within the Media, Community and the Creative Citizen project- UK-Greece project 2013 with useful discussion of issues
- Mapping local community assets online- presentation about using Google maps, prepared by Locality
- Mapping networks and social ecosystems- Networked City
- Mapping the social city: Atlas of social maps- 2015 - Through our Mapping the Social Cityproject, Social Life and SIXhave been exploring how maps and mapping tools can help us understand local places and people’s everyday experiences, to help us find new perspectives on urban social life and social innovation in cities. Includes list of online tools.
- Onion mapping and Urban Reconnaissanceis an exciting and creative method of ‘layering’ maps of a locality produced by different people like the rings of an onion. This layering can both help make sense of the complexity of cities and reveal similarities, tensions, points of coming together and absences.
- Mapping local assets - Social Life work in Waltham Forest
- Appreciating Assets- IACD and Carnegie UK Trust. Methods and case studies
- Public engagement tools including maps- at OpenPlans
- Participatory Asset Mapping- Community Science toolkit 2012