Adapting Geographic Information Systems
to Sketch Planning Needs

by

Raj R. Singh

A. B., Economics
Brown University, 1991

Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

Master's in City Planning

at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
June 1996

(c) 1996 Raj R. Singh. All rights reserved.

The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce
and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies
of this thesis document in whole or in part.

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

June 7, 1996

Certified by

Joseph Ferreira Jr., Professor of Urban Studies and Operations Research
Thesis Advisor

Accepted by

J. Mark Davidson Schuster
Chair, Master's in City Planning Committee