037R_Big data, smart cities and city planning (research summary)

What is The Future for Cities? · Feb 28, 2022 · 9m

Summary of the commentary article titled Big data, smart cities and city planning from 2013 by Michael Batty published in the Dialogues in Human Geography journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see sea of available data changes urban areas. This article investigates how the big data shifts the emphasis from longer term strategic planning to short term thinking about urban functions and management. The article is available through this link. Abstract: I define big data with respect to its size but pay particular attention to the fact that…