Intelligent Cities: Planning for Our Urban Digital Future

COVID-19 Has Promoted Civic Participation

Fighting Google with Open Data

The so-called “Google Bus” private shuttles, which transport thousands of employees from their highly desirable San Francisco neighborhoods to Google HQ in suburban Mountain View, have generated controversy on many city-planning issues. The buses raise land use issues by blurring the lines…

Apps and Maps

The Subspotting project captures, maps and visualizes the available cell phone reception in the entire New York City Subway

Coexist but not co-mingle: a new definition of segregation?

Big Data and Government Project Planning

ChiStreetWork was an internal database established by CDOT, PCO, Google and SADA which…

The “Digital Divide” in the Age of Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic and the “social distancing” measures required for its…

Data Mining for Food-Related Illnesses

In a Washington Post article in 2014, Abby Phillip reported that New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene used data mining…

FutureTrans: HYPERLOOP - Reality or Hyperreality?

Data USA

More and more city agencies are releasing their data to the public. However, the average person would find it difficult to understand or draw meaningful conclusions from the available data. A new website, DataUSA, wants to provide information about jobs, housing, demographics, and education in a simple and…