Chicago Fair Trade Christian Barron Melissa Jones Bree Formentini Emily Marshall Victor Birza Geo 242 March 10, 20112 Table of Content: Project Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------3 1. Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------------3 2. Needs Assessment -----------------------------------------------------------4 3. System Requirements -------------------------------------------------------5 4. Data Acquisition--------------------------------------------------------------8 5. Data Analysis and Visualization--------------------------------------------10 6. Results--------------------------------------------------------------------------13 7. Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations--------------------------133 Project Summary: Chicago Fair Trade has requested our help to create a visual tool that projects information within their database onto a map of Chicago. The database is comprised of locations and addresses of various fair trade institutions, organizations, cafes and stores throughout the city. Chicago Fair Trade has asked us to do this because they need to assess the current state of their progress in reaching their goal; to revitalize the city of Chicago into an internationally renowned fair trade city. To meet this goal Chicago Fair Trade has been participating in, establishing, and advocating that at least one fair trade serving institution and retail store in each of Chicago’s seventy-seven neighborhoods exist. This is to ensure that everyone within in the city can have access to fair trade goods as well as to increase awareness about fair trade goods throughout the neighborhoods that they may not be available in. In order to continue the spread of fair trade retailers and institutions throughout the city, Chicago Fair Trade needs to analyze which communities these outlets are accessible to and which communities don’t have access to them. This will allow Chicago Fair Trade to increase awareness and knowledge about fair trade within these regions and assist in the creation of fair trade outlets for the community members to access. Our job is to create a map that displays the current reach of their project. By creating a map that displays the locations of these institutions and stores in relation to the Chicago Community Areas, Chicago Fair Trade will better be able to determine which neighborhoods need more attention in spreading fair trade awareness and advocacy. We will also create a map for them that will clearly show the community areas that currently don’t have any fair trade outlets within them. This will provide a visual that will allow them to determine which specific locations need more attention. These maps may be used as an analytical tool to decipher any trends between the location of fair trade organizations/institutions and the number of fair trade stores within neighborhoods by using a simple buffer tool analytical methodology. These maps will illustrate where attention needs to be focused by Chicago Fair Trade in order to continue working towards their goal of establishing Chicago as a Fair Trade City. . 1. Introduction: Chicago Fair Trade is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the fair trade movement and making Chicago an international fair trade city. Members of Chicago fair Trade can be divided into either categories of individuals or organizations; where organizations collectively comprise business members, NGO’s, faith organizations, and educational institutions/student groups. Chicago Fair Trade is involved in a variety of projects including campaigns to market fair trade sports goods to Chicago schools as well as working to ensure that the city’s seventy-seven neighborhoods contain at least one supporting fair trade institution or retail outlet. In doing so, Chicago Fair Trade wishes to turn Chicago into an internationally reputable city known for fostering ideals of international equity, fairness and mutual respect within the international community. Moreover, the efforts of Fair Trade Chicago work towards increasing retail and economic opportunities within the city as well as promote environmental sustainable practices. The goal for our project was to create maps which plot the different fair trade outlets located in Chicago, showing all of the seventy-seven community areas, allowing4 Chicago Fair Trade to find communities which need more fair trade locations. We have created three different maps of Chicago each showing the location of specific fair trade outlets. Also third map includes all fair trade locations and we highlighted community areas which do not have any fair trade outlets. 2. Needs Assessment: The DePaul students assisting Fair Trade Chicago in meeting their goals will examine and map out the fair trade locations in Chicago’s seventy-seven community neighborhoods using ArcGIS software. Given the clients interest in a having a map created that they could alter for future use, the DePaul group will look into the possibility of creating a map using software that Chicago Fair Trade could utilize on their own, such as GoogleMaps. To create these maps, DePaul partners will be utilizing the excel database that Chicago Fair Trade has provided. The map and other information created from this database is intended for use on Chicago Fair Trade’s website. The map will not only mark the locations of all fair trade outlets and institutions but also provide public viewers with addresses and other relevant information about the locations as well. This goal of this format is to increase a consumer’s knowledge and access of locations throughout the city that serve and cater to fair trade practices. The created maps will also find relevance to other fair trade suppliers as it will increase awareness of high demand fair trade city regions in an easy-to-interpret visual format. By creating these visual tools, the DePaul team plans to answer the consumer’s question on behalf of Fair Trade Chicago of where they can buy local fair trade items as well as to increase their awareness of the availability of such items. The goal of having Chicago internationally recognized as a fair trade city will begin by increasing methods in which Chicago is locally viewed and recognized as a fair trade city. Through accomplishing this project we will also be able to present a visual representation of the various