Discover how landscapes can act as living batteries and how to harness soil, biomass, water, and slope dynamics for energy storage & resilient NYC landscaping.| Eco Brooklyn
Eminent domain is the right of the state to seize the private property of an individual for a public purpose with just compensation. The third and final article in this series explores the Supreme Court decisions that influenced eminent domain policy from the mid twentieth-century to the present. The post Eminent Domain Part 3: Urban Renewal to the Present first appeared on The West End Museum.| The West End Museum
The European Commission JRC recently released a new 2023 update of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) data. This update has greatly improved the GHSL data, with a 10 metre scale built-up area…| CityGeographics
In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge examines how city designs exacerbate gender inequalities – and what we can […]| Social Science Space
Big Data is changing transportation analytics and paving the way for more data-driven transport planning. Learn 6 critical traffic data metrics for every planner.| StreetLight
Boston, like its West End, is no stranger to marked population changes. Recent studies have predicted further transformations for Boston’s and Massachusetts’ populations that could have meaningful economic and political impacts. Such changes, current and future, are influenced by various interrelated factors: immigration patterns, cost of living, major disruptors, anchor institutions, and global population growth rate.| The West End Museum – Boston's Neighborhood Museum
Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced $1.8 billion in funding for 148 infrastructure projects. Most of the funding is available for projects that make streets safer for people who travel on them in any way. Work on these projects should be under way by November of this year, and funding of this type […]| InfrastructureUSA: Citizen Dialogue About Civil Infrastructure
How accurate is StreetLight’s vehicle speed data? We compared our metrics to speed data from New York City’s OpenData portal so you can see for yourself.| StreetLight
Urban transportation is the single largest contributor to emissions and a strategic target for reducing pollution and climate impact. Here's what cities can do to reduce transportation emissions.| StreetLight
To fix speeding on Roosevelt Blvd, Philadelphia installed speed cameras. Now, before-and-after analysis by StreetLight reveals where further measures may still be needed to save lives.| StreetLight
As smart cities turn to innovative technologies to improve operations, transportation data is changing how they make decisions that impact how people move.| StreetLight
The housing crisis in London has become increasingly severe in the last decade with much higher prices, rents, and largely static incomes, while housing development volumes have remained consistent…| CityGeographics
The Office for National Statistics have started to publish the more detailed tables from the new 2021 census. Of particular interest for my research are the variables related to gentrification. In …| CityGeographics