In this piece, I combine geospatial data science, data visualization, urban planning, and a bit of design from ChatGPT to visualize the road networks of the most livable cities.
Originally published in Nightingale, Journal of the Data Visualization Society, January 26, 2023. All images by the author.
Road networks are magnificent bird-eye view fingerprints of cities, age-old topics of urban planning, and stable cornerstones of spatial data science. As a primary goal of today’s urban planning is to design livable, future-proof cities via concepts like the 15-minute city, here I collect the top lists of most livable cities and give a visual overview of their road networks — with a ChatGPT twist.
Which are the most livable cities on Earth?
Year after year, numerous rankings are published based on which cities are the most livable, with Western Europe, Canada, and Australia usually topping these lists. These lists try to factor in as many aspects as possible, from public transport to healthcare and urban health. As they intend to be very general,it might very well happen that for certain individuals, even myself, the personalized top list would look different. Diving into…
