Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management

193 Pages·2022·3.881 MB·English

by  Alasdair Rae, Cecilia Wong

APPLIED DATA
ANALYSIS
FOR URBAN
PLANNING AND
MANAGEMENT
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APPLIED DATA
ANALYSIS
FOR URBAN
PLANNING AND
MANAGEMENT
Alasdair Rae
Cecilia Wong
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SAGE Publications Ltd Editorial arrangement  Alasdair Rae and Cecilia Wong 2021
1 Oliver’s Yard Chapter 1  Alasdair Rae 2021
55 City Road Chapter 2  Elisabete A. Silva, Lun Liu,
London EC1Y 1SP Heeseo Rain Kwon, Haifeng Niu, Yiqiao Chen and
Jose Reis 2021
SAGE Publications Inc. Chapter 3  Cecilia Wong 2021
2455 Teller Road Chapter 4  Adipandang Yudono 2021
Thousand Oaks, California 91320 Chapter 5  Duncan A. Smith 2021
Chapter 6  Oliver Dawkins, Rob Kitchin, Gareth W. Young
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd and Tomasz Zawadzki 2021
B 1/I 1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area Chapter 7  Chao Ren, Edward Ng, Jason Wai Po Tse, Pak
Mathura Road Shing Yeung, Jimmy Chi Hung Fung, Gerald Mills, Jason
New Delhi 110 044 Ching, Benjamin Bechtel and Linda See 2021
Chapter 8  Lei Wang 2021
SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd Chapter 9  Zheng Wang 2021
3 Church Street Chapter 10  Cecilia Wong 2021
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CONTENTS
About the Editors vii
About the Contributors ix
1 Introduction: The Promises and Pitfalls of Data for Urban Planning 1
Alasdair Rae
2 What’s New in Urban Data Analytics? 11
Elisabete A. Silva, Lun Liu, Heeseo Rain Kwon, Haifeng Niu,
Yiqiao Chen and Jose Reis
3 Indicators and Urban Planning: The Big Data Opportunities
and Challenges 29
Cecilia Wong
4 Crowdsourced Geographic Information for Urban Planning
and Management 49
Adipandang Yudono
5 Design and Narrative Techniques for Urban Data Visualisation 67
Duncan A. Smith
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6 City Dashboards and 3D Geospatial Technologies for Urban Planning
and Management 83
Oliver Dawkins, Rob Kitchin, Gareth W. Young and Tomasz Zawadzki
7 Data Analytics, Urban Form and Climate Change:
The Urban Climate Map 103
Chao Ren, Edward Ng, Jason Wai Po Tse, Pak Shing Yeung,
Jimmy Chi Hung Fung, Gerald Mills, Jason Ching,
Benjamin Bechtel and Linda See
8 Data Analytics and Modelling Accessibility Change of High-Speed
Rail Network Development: A Door-to-Door Approach 127
Lei Wang
9 Understanding Migrant–Local Neighbourly Relations in Shanghai:
Empirical Urban Research in a Data-Sparse Setting 143
Zheng Wang
10 Conclusion: Beyond Analytics: Planning-Led or Planning-Lag? 161
Cecilia Wong
Index 171
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ABOUT THE EDITORS
Alasdair Rae is the founder of Automatic Knowledge Ltd, a UK-based data and insights
company, focusing on spatial data analysis and the built environment. Prior to that,
he was a Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, a recipient of the Royal Town Planning
Institute’s Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement, a former Commissioner of the
UK2070 Commission, and a winner of the Royal Statistical Society’s ‘Stat of the Year’.
His most recent academic work has focused on spatial analysis, deprivation, housing
markets and megaregions, and his work frequently appears in the national and interna-
tional media. He has a PhD from the University of Liverpool, an MA from The Ohio State
University and a BA from the University of Strathclyde.
Cecilia Wong is Professor of Spatial Planning and Director of Spatial Policy and Analysis
Lab of the Manchester Urban Institute, the University of Manchester. She is Fellow of
the UK Academy of Social Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute; and
Chair of the UK 2021 Research Excellence Framework ‘Architecture, Built Environment
and Planning’ sub-panel. She has research expertise in strategic spatial planning, policy
monitoring and analysis, urban and regional development, and housing and infrastruc-
ture planning, and urban planning in China. She was a commissioner of the UK2070
Commission on Regional Inequalities, a commissioner of the Labour Party’s Lyons
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Independent Housing Review, a member of Department for Communities and Local
Government’s expert panel on housing and planning, an expert panel member of the
European Commission’s Urban Audit II, and an expert group member of the UN-Habitat
City Prosperity Index.
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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Benjamin Bechtel holds a professorship in Urban Climatology at the Ruhr-University
Bochum, Germany. He serves as board member of the International Association for
Urban Climate, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Remote Sensing and as a reviewer and guest
editor for several international journals.
Yiqiao Chen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Land Economy, University of
Cambridge. Yiqiao’s research focuses on utilisation of multi-sourced data in the big data
era, and integration of complexity theory, urban data analytics and smart city govern-
ance, with a special focus on smart transport.
Jason Ching has had joint appointments as a Meteorologist/Physical Scientist with
the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1970 to 2010; he led the development of
the EPA’s prototypic Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modelling system. Dr
Ching is currently a senior research scientist at University of North Carolina Institute
for the Environment in Chapel Hill, NC, and is a lead for the WUDAPT (World Urban
Database and Access Portal Tool), an IAUC Initiative (2012–present).
Oliver Dawkins is a researcher on the Connected Environments project at the Bartlett
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London, and formerly
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