Seeing Cities Through Big Data: Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics

✍ Scribed by Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, Nebiyou Tilahun, Moira Zellner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 553
• Series: Springer Geography
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces the latest thinking on the use of Big Data in the context of urban systems, including research and insights on human behavior, urban dynamics, resource use, sustainability and spatial disparities, where it promises improved planning, management and governance in the urban sectors (e.g., transportation, energy, smart cities, crime, housing, urban and regional economies, public health, public engagement, urban governance and political systems), as well as Big Data’s utility in decision-making, and development of indicators to monitor economic and social activity, and for urban sustainability, transparency, livability, social inclusion, place-making, accessibility and resilience.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction to Seeing Cities Through Big Data: Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics....Pages 1-9
Big Data and Urban Informatics: Innovations and Challenges to Urban Planning and Knowledge Discovery....Pages 11-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Using User-Generated Content to Understand Cities....Pages 49-64
Developing an Interactive Mobile Volunteered Geographic Information Platform to Integrate Environmental Big Data and Citizen Science in Urban Management....Pages 65-81
CyberGIS-Enabled Urban Sensing from Volunteered Citizen Participation Using Mobile Devices....Pages 83-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Potential for Big Data to Improve Neighborhood-Level Census Data....Pages 99-111
Big Data and Survey Research: Supplement or Substitute?....Pages 113-125
Big Spatio-Temporal Network Data Analytics for Smart Cities: Research Needs....Pages 127-140
A Review of Heteroscedasticity Treatment with Gaussian Processes and Quantile Regression Meta-models....Pages 141-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Urban Informatics: Critical Data and Technology Considerations....Pages 163-188
Digital Infomediaries and Civic Hacking in Emerging Urban Data Initiatives....Pages 189-207
How Should Urban Planners Be Trained to Handle Big Data?....Pages 209-217
Energy Planning in a Big Data Era: A Theme Study of the Residential Sector....Pages 219-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Using an Online Spatial Analytics Workbench for Understanding Housing Affordability in Sydney....Pages 233-255
A Big Data Mashing Tool for Measuring Transit System Performance....Pages 257-278
Developing a Comprehensive U.S. Transit Accessibility Database....Pages 279-290
Seeing Chinese Cities Through Big Data and Statistics....Pages 291-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Planning for the Change: Mapping Sea Level Rise and Storm Inundation in Sherman Island Using 3Di Hydrodynamic Model and LiDAR....Pages 313-329
The Impact of Land-Use Variables on Free-Floating Carsharing Vehicle Rental Choice and Parking Duration....Pages 331-347
Dynamic Agent Based Simulation of an Urban Disaster Using Synthetic Big Data....Pages 349-382
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Estimation of Urban Transport Accessibility at the Spatial Resolution of an Individual Traveler....Pages 383-404
Modeling Taxi Demand and Supply in New York City Using Large-Scale Taxi GPS Data....Pages 405-425
Detecting Stop Episodes from GPS Trajectories with Gaps....Pages 427-439
Front Matter....Pages 441-441
Using Social Media and Satellite Data for Damage Assessment in Urban Areas During Emergencies....Pages 443-457
Front Matter....Pages 459-459
‘Big Data’: Pedestrian Volume Using Google Street View Images....Pages 461-469
Learning from Outdoor Webcams: Surveillance of Physical Activity Across Environments....Pages 471-490
Mapping Urban Soundscapes via Citygram....Pages 491-513
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
Big Data and Smart (Equitable) Cities....Pages 517-542
Big Data, Small Apps: Premises and Products of the Civic Hackathon....Pages 543-559

✦ Subjects

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns);Transportation;Methodology of the Social Sciences;Environmental Geography;Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery