urban planning

Using AI to Design Cities
Researchers now are trying to use artificial intelligence techniques, including deep reinforcement learning, to design more efficient and sustainable urban spaces.

What are Desire Paths?
Desire paths (also known as social trails) form when people or animals consistently take direct routes instead of using designated paths.

These Cities are the Most Unaffordable Places to Buy a House in the World
Urban Reform Institute and Frontier Centre for Public Policy evaluated housing markets for 92 metropolitan areas in eight countries to see how affordable they area.

What are 15-Minute Cities?
What if you could get from home to your job to the grocery store to the park, all in 15 minutes?

Improving Urban Decision Making with Open Earth Observations
Steven Ramage, Head of External Relations, Group on Earth Observations (GEO), outlines innovative partnerships and activities GEO has been working on globally using open Earth data, GIS, and cloud technologies.