By Drew Bush In a paper published this past May, Geothink Co-Applicant Stéphane Roche posits that emerging smart cities require citizens to develop an urban intelligence that meshes material realities with digital information. In order to fully manage and engage with urban spaces, future smart citizens must develop the skillset required to understand spatio-temporal interactions in dynamically linked urban networks … Read More
An Emergent Field: Making Better Maps By Applying Geographical Science to the Human Brain
By Drew Bush City planners often use socioeconomic data collected in surveys to determine neighbourhoods that might benefit from improved services. Yet such types of data can have a significant margin of error, especially when they’re collected from a relatively small group. “Especially if you want to look at a small subset of the population—say, kids under 5 who are … Read More