by Damon Lim | Aug 9, 2019 | Field work, Urbanization
In May 2019, I visited Myanmar and Cambodia to conduct fieldwork as part of Director Angel Hsu’s research on “Urbanization in Southeast Asia.” Since the start of the year, researchers at Data-Driven Lab have been using satellite images and open social media data to...
by Jacob Jarabejo | Aug 9, 2019 | Data, Field work, Urbanization
Earlier this summer, I packed my bags and headed off to three cities in Laos – Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng, and Vientiane – and to Bangkok, Thailand. The main goal of this fieldwork was to collect data on land-use across cities in Southeast Asia. This work will support...
by Ryan Thomas | May 5, 2017 | Presentations, Projects, Sustainability, The City Fix, Urbanization
The term ‘sustainability’ has become synonymous with environmentalism in popular culture. It is often used to refer to climate change mitigation and adaptation; the ‘reduce, reuse, and recycle’ movement; cycling to work; vegetarianism; and so on. Within academic...
by Ryan Thomas | May 4, 2017 | Data, Featured, Projects, The City Fix, Urbanization
In the past year, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the air quality emergency in Delhi, India have brought the inability of some cities to provide a healthy environment for their residents into sharper focus. However, as these crises unfolded, wealthy residents...
by Diego Manya Gutierrez | Jan 11, 2017 | Big data, Data, Urbanization
The United Nations Programme for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) developed the City Prosperity Initiative (the “Initiative”) as a framework to evaluate urban sustainable development through a new metric, the City Prosperity Index (CPI). At the UN-Habitat III conference...
by Ryan Thomas | Oct 25, 2016 | Big data, Data, Presentations, UNFCCC, Urbanization
Last week, a group of over 45,000 attendees and representatives from 143 countries and 500 cities[1] participated in the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (the Agenda) at the UN-Habitat III conference in Quito. The Agenda includes a vision of sustainable urbanism,...
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