by Willie Khoo | Dec 11, 2019 | Data, Featured, Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
The Guggenheim Museum in the City of Bilbao, Spain, is one of the most iconic buildings of modern architecture. Coiled along the Nervion river under the Basque country sun, it is a writhing, breathtaking contortion of titanium, stone, and glass, all polish and sheen,...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 1, 2019 | Climate, Data Visualization, Policy
Image from wikipedia.com. Wednesday, Dec. 4 10:00 am – 1:00 pm: CAMDA Preparatory Meetings – Pressing ‘record’ on Climate Action” Ahead of the next Global Stocktake in 2023, monitoring progress towards the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development...
by Angel Hsu | Sep 12, 2019 | Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index, Urbanization
This past July, I was invited to present our Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC ’19) in Dalian, China as part of the Global Situation Space forum. This space...
by Willie Khoo | Sep 10, 2019 | Featured, Sustainability, Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
Cities pack a lot of heat. Increasing human activity and the clearing of land for infrastructure are quickly driving up their temperatures. This local phenomenon, known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect, is compounded by rising temperatures from global climate...
by Claire Suh | Aug 16, 2019 | Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
Photo Credits: Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash. Originally posted on the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness website. As Montréal cools down from a boiling weekend during which Environment Canada warned of humidex values reaching a high of 45 degrees, the...
