Lee Hall

The Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture is located in Lee Hall where studio space is available.  The building contains classrooms and seminar rooms as well as the Emery Gunnin Library and two computer laboratories.  Student study space, computer workstations, two studios and a lounge space area are available for the use of planning students.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Facilities at Clemson
A Geographic Information System is a methodology for overlaying, integrating, and analyzing geographically referenced data, often assembled from different sources. While the concept is not new, its merger with today's capabilities of digital computers has revolutionized approaches to land use planning, natural resource management, as well as housing and demographic analyses. In the last 35 years, GIS technology has expanded rapidly and found a home in a number of additional applications - cartography, environmental assessment, real estate management, ecological research, transportation analysis, business applications, market analysis, and more. GIS technology provides powerful tools for understanding and analyzing some of the pressing problems we face today such as rapid urbanization, neighborhood dynamics and sprawl, habitat changes and the impacts of land use change on the global environment. Recognizing the centrality of GIS problem-solving capabilities, Clemson University has significantly expanded its capacity for GIS research and training with a multimillion-dollar facilities expansion. Five student-computing labs with 72 dedicated GIS workstations are centrally located in Barre, Hardin, and Lehotsky Halls.

These GIS labs were created for classwork and research projects in the design, development and analysis of spatial databases, remote sensing images, as well as the latest in modeling techniques. They provide a "hands-on" learning environment. Students enjoy low faculty-to-student ratios and access to a GIS workstation without having to share with another student. Novell NetWare network infrastructure connects all the GIS computers on campus. The University's Division of Computing and Information Technology (DCIT) maintains the network and GIS labs. Students are allowed up to 1 GB of personal disk space accessible from anywhere on the network. Clemson's GIS facilities provide essential information tools so that faculty and students can:

• Model real-world problems by graphically analyzing data
• Conduct "what-if" scenarios. 
• Share crucial information across University's network,
• Coordinate and communicate key concepts between teams and campus organizations
• Communicate research and project results by creating maps, tables and charts for use in journal articles, term papers and theses.
• Use state-of-the-art tools from the leading GIS and Remote sensing software.
• Access a rich collection of databases that provide both geospatial boundary and statistical information (e.g. census, environmental, terrain, geological, political, etc).
• Take individual self-paced GIS courses from ESRI's Virtual Campus on the Web free of charge.

Clemson's commitment offers our students the finest in higher educational GIS facilities. Labs at 24 Hardin Hall and B108 Barre Hall are Planning's primary GIS facilities. These labs have 24-hour access. They contain a "smart classroom" equipped with a video and data projector. Hardin has 15 IBM 2GHz workstations with 21-inch monitors and 512 MB of memory. The Barre Planning Lab has 14 Dell dual-processor workstations with 1 GB of memory and 17-inch LCD monitors. Each lab has a HP 4600 color laser printer and network access to Barre's HP DesignJet 36" plotter. The workstations run Windows 2000 Professional and use the most current ESRI ArcGIS and ERDAS Imagine software. With this arrangement, students have access to the world's most popular GIS and remote sensing software and latest computer hardwre. While connected to the University network, the labs have their own sub network and server where students can access their data from anywhere on campus.

Gunnin Library
The Gunnin Library in Lee Hall has more than 40,000 books, 85,000 slides, professional journals and periodicals, and a planning document collection. The main University library holds more than a million books, periodicals and government publications. The library also provides excellent research sources through over 75 research databases.
The Rudolph Lee Gallery adds to the creative atmosphere of the college including fine arts exhibits. Student, faculty, and well-known professionals representing all disciplines of the college have exhibitions throughout the year.