June 2011
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Physicist, Geoffrey West, wants to find a way to...
One of my favorite urban thinkers, Geoffrey West, is trying to now find a way to model the effects of city growth on society and environment.
I have loved his previous work that examined the metabolic rate of cities where he compared cities to elephants. The main take-away from this research for me was that cities are more sustainable and scalable than smaller scale human settlements precisely...
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Mapping Incarceration: Using GIS to visualize...
I am just learning of Eric Cadora’s amazing project in a Village Voice article from 2004: Million-Dollar Blocks: The neighborhood costs of America’s prison boom.
This is a story about creative approaches to social policy and a story about an individual’s dedication to justice. Eric Cadora began using GIS software to visualize the amount of public funds that were being spent...