Urban Analytics
&
City Science

Overview

Dani Arribas-Bel

Background

  • 🏙️ Cities are (increasingly) relevant for all of humanity’s challenges but also their solutions
  • 📈 Data, data, data
  • 🤖 Data is the oil, analytics is the refinery (Rey, 2021)

Definition

Batty (2019)

Source

New, big, fast data; but also the theory behind them

Trajectory

Origins & evolution

  • Vague but early start linked to physics
  • From deductive to inductive
  • Computing and data technologies critical in trajectory

Source

Urban Data Science

Kang et al. (2019)

Source

Contemporary Urban Analytics

  • Landing the data/AI revolution on cities and regions
  • Natively interdisciplinary (the urban as nexus)
  • Linked to policy, decision-making, practice

Praxis

EP-B Urban Data/Code

Arribas-Bel et al. (2021)

Source

Pedagogy

  • Urban theory & methods
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Modern tools

Source

Urban Analytics@Turing

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