A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues
ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings …

Urban planning and morphology have relied on analytical cartography and visual
communication tools for centuries to illustrate spatial patterns, conceptualize proposed …

Epidemic outbreaks pose significant risks to sustainable urban development, underscoring
the critical need to bolster the resilience of old communities, key to urban epidemic …

Abstract UN-Habitat estimates that 51.3% of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA) resided in slums in 2020, and future projections indicate continued growth. However …

The drawbacks of crowded informal settlements stand in stark contrast to the theoretical
promise that urban density is the key to building more productive, sustainable and resilient …

The recent growth of high-resolution spatial data, especially in develo** urban
environments, is enabling new approaches to civic activism, urban planning and the …

Never in history have we built so much, in so many different places. Population growth,
urbanization, and technological change are all pushing us to conceive and design spaces in …

The United States largely depends on the automobile for personal transportation. This
dominance has significant consequences for society over a range of issues, including the …

People who reside in informal settlements in the Global South are most vulnerable to
extreme weather events and their consequences, such as flooding, landslides, and fires …

This chapter introduces OpenStreetMap—a crowdsourced, worldwide map** project and
geospatial data repository-to illustrate its usefulness in quickly and easily analyzing and …