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Urban Data Science: An Introduction

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Data mining; Economics; GIS; Land use planning; Spatial/urban data science; Spatiotemporal Structure and Dynamics; Transport; Urban systems

Historical Background

In her classic book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs said, “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody” (Jacobs 1961). Indeed, her book was filled with examples of failures in city building when cities were not created by everybody, but by the few hands of power. And while her book does not provide scalable solutions to how cities may be created by everybody, these words continue to be prophetic. Traditional urban planning, for example, is supported by traditional forms of data collection and statistical analysis. The primary source of this data has historically been the census and the other surveys carried out by national bureaus of statistics in different countries. However, a significant change has occurred in...

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This work was supported by the University of Sydney’s Henry Halloran Trust under the Research Incubator Fellowship program.

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  1. Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Planning, Design Lab, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Somwrita Sarkar

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Sarkar, S. (2017). Urban Data Science: An Introduction. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1627

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