Urban Informatics Unit
The Urban Informatics Unit implements new methods to visualize, analyze, and design interactions between the built environment and human action.
Cross-disciplinary Collaboration to Increase Community Resilience
Projections show that, globally, more people will live in areas that are vulnerable to issues such as sea level rise, depopulation, or natural disasters. Disasters and public health crises are a significant source of property loss, social disruption, and inequality.
Communities can reduce vulnerability while increasing social and physical resilience through research-driven, evidence-based planning, design, and policy development.
Through collaboration with other research groups, we will create a convergent research trust to:
- Collect, compile and share built environment data
- Engage communities to disseminate information and facilitate citizen science
- Promote the convergence of research across disciplines through a big data analytical platform/demonstration facility
- Advance STEM education and work force development
Problem Solving through Innovative Software Solutions
Our mission is to develop and support free and open source software tools for reproducible problem solving in the natural, built, and virtual environments. These tools will be synced within a new GeoDesign core of the Urban Informatics Unit.
The computing core of the Urban Informatics Unit is organized around six key modeling approaches:
- Representation models
- process models
- evaluation models
- change models
- impact models
- decision models for urban space
Program Leads
