Session details: Challenges followed by Urban Informatics Data Challenge Presentations

Fabien Girardin is a co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory a thinking, making, design, development and research practice speculating on the near future possibilities for digital worlds. He is active in the domains of user experience, data science and urban informatics.

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Urban Risks and Resilience

Urban Informatics - The Urban Book Series ◽

10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_13 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 197-211

Author(s):

Susan L. Cutter

Keyword(s):

Adverse Events ◽

Case Studies ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Building Capacity ◽

Urban Informatics ◽

The Past ◽

End Point ◽

Point Versus

AbstractThe resilience concept has become more significant in the past decade as a means for understanding how cities prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Definitional differences—resilience as an outcome or end-point versus resilience as a process of building capacity—dominate the literature. Lagging behind are efforts to systematically measure resilience to produce a baseline and subsequent monitoring, in order to gauge what, where, and how intervention or mitigation strategies would strengthen or weaken urban resilience. The chapter reviews research and practitioner attempts to develop urban informatics for resilience and provides selected case studies of cities as exemplars.

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Defining Urban Science

Urban Informatics - The Urban Book Series ◽

10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_3 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 15-28

Author(s):

Michael Batty

Keyword(s):

Spatial Structure ◽

Spatial Interaction ◽

Urban Informatics ◽

Form And Function ◽

Urban Science ◽

Operational Models ◽

And Function ◽

The City ◽

Different Levels

AbstractThis introductory chapter provides a brief overview of the theories and models that constitute what has come to be called urban science. Explaining and measuring the spatial structure of the city in terms of its form and function is one of the main goals of this science. It provides links between the way various theories about how the city is formed, in terms of its economy and social structure, and how these theories might be transformed into models that constitute the operational tools of urban informatics. First the idea of the city as a system is introduced, and then various models pertaining to the forces that determine what is located where in the city are presented. How these activities are linked to one another through flows and networks are then introduced. These models relate to formal models of spatial interaction, the distribution of the sizes of different cities, and the qualitative changes that take place as cities grow and evolve to different levels. Scaling is one of the major themes uniting these different elements grounding this science within the emerging field of complexity. We then illustrate how we might translate these ideas into operational models which are at the cutting edge of the new tools that are being developed in urban informatics, and which are elaborated in various chapters dealing with modeling and mobility throughout this book.

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Overall Introduction

Urban Informatics - The Urban Book Series ◽

10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Wenzhong Shi ◽

Michael F. Goodchild ◽

Michael Batty ◽

Mei-Po Kwan ◽

Anshu Zhang

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Data Infrastructure ◽

Urban Informatics ◽

New Information ◽

Wide Range ◽

Urban Science ◽

Definition Of

AbstractUrban informatics is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding, managing, and designing the city using systematic theories and methods based on new information technologies. Integrating urban science, geomatics, and informatics, urban informatics is a particularly timely way of fusing many interdisciplinary perspectives in studying city systems. This edited book aims to meet the urgent need for works that systematically introduce the principles and technologies of urban informatics. The book gathers over 40 world-leading research teams from a wide range of disciplines, who provide comprehensive reviews of the state of the art and the latest research achievements in their various areas of urban informatics. The book is organized into six parts, respectively covering the conceptual and theoretical basis of urban informatics, urban systems and applications, urban sensing, urban big data infrastructure, urban computing, and prospects for the future of urban informatics. This introductory chapter provides a definition of urban informatics and an outline of the book’s structure and scope.

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