Urban

Learn how to use the City’s emergency map to quickly see how neighborhoods, including your own, may be directed to evacuate, shelter in place, or take other protective action. When possible, the City will also use the map to identify evacuation routes, road closures, shelters, or other critical information to guide you to your next ...

Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t just about the climate and weather – it also depends on the people and property in harm’s way. In many coastal cities, fast population growth has left more people living in areas at high ...

The Oklahoma City Office of Sustainability’s first deep dive into digital mapping showed just how important spatial awareness can be—especially when it comes to extreme summer heat. For context, this state capital is similar in size to New York City at 621 square miles. But its population of about 750,000 is more spread out than ...

A new version of the London Underground map designed by a University of Essex lecturer has gone viral. Harry Beck’s 1933 Tube map is the one people usually use, but Maxwell Roberts, from Walton-on-the-Naze, created his own version in 2013. Mr Roberts has now updated his creation, and it has had a million engagements within ...

A new mapping tool from North Carolina State University uses machine learning and open-source satellite imagery to model flooding in urban environments. The new model could create maps that predict urban area flooding, which traditionally have not been accessible to urban planners. This could help identify potentially flood-prone areas in urban settings, helping officials make ...

Municipalities in Quebec’s capital region have recently begun using artificial intelligence to track everything from tree cover to cars — and even backyard pools. The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, which groups Quebec City and its suburbs, says the groundbreaking project will help member municipalities achieve their environmental targets, assess parking availability and monitor urban development. ...

Heat stress and air pollution ravages cities more and more. In a new Horizon Europe project, researchers will develop a digital twin that supports decision makers to design resilient urban areas that can cope with the changing climate. Researchers from TU Delft and 18 other partners receive the Horizon Europe grant for their project called ...

Nearly 34 million people across 65 US cities — roughly one in 10 Americans — live in a place where the built environment makes temperatures feel at least 8 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it would without that urban sprawl. That’s according to a new study by the nonprofit Climate Central, which mapped the impact of ...

New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, has become the first city in the country to create an online data sharing platform to map all underground infrastructure either owned by the city or other utility operators. The platform will map buried pipes and cables that could save infrastructure organisations millions of dollars each year. The platform aims to ...

“Speed kills” is such a well-known mantra in transportation advocacy circles it’s at risk of becoming trite. So how can activists find new ways to communicate the crucial linkage between speeding drivers and the fatal crashes they cause? One answer to that question comes from a project by Portland Community College Student Jake Veto. Veto ...

Die hohen Temperaturen machen gemütliche Spaziergänge durch Salzburg zu einer Herausforderung. Die Sonne heizt Gehwege und Straßen extrem auf, und schattenspendende Bäume für Fußgängerinnen und Fußgänger sind vielerorts Mangelware. Der Verkehrsclub Österreich (VCÖ) ruft daher die Bevölkerung dazu auf, Hotspots in einer Online-Karte zu markieren. Die Hitze belastet nicht nur die Gemüter, sondern auch die ...

El Municipio de 25 de Mayo se ha unido a la Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (IDEBA), convirtiéndose en uno de los 30 miembros comprometidos con la gestión eficiente del territorio. A través de esta integración, tendrán acceso a una serie de recursos tecnológicos que facilitarán el seguimiento preciso de ...

Have you ever wondered who provides your sewer services, when your street is scheduled to be swept, what average daily traffic volumes are on streets near you or when the sidewalk in front of your house was last replaced? Menlo Park residents can now find the answer to these questions and more on Menlo Park’s ...

There’s no elegant way to say this: going to the bathroom in New York is a nightmare. Public restrooms in the city are hard to find and are often either out of order or require you to buy something at a store or café to be able to use. The problem is so bad that ...

A new University of Maryland study suggests that Washington, D.C.’s most socioeconomically vulnerable neighborhoods are less equipped to handle runoff from heavy rainfalls made more frequent by climate change. Published this month in Cities, the study reveals that the most densely populated communities in the District of Columbia, particularly in historically Black Southeast D.C., lack ...

One natural strategy to reduce heat-related deaths is to increase tree coverage in urban areas, which helps lower temperatures. A recent study highlights the disparities in health and energy consumption across the United States, stemming from insufficient urban tree coverage. It also details the potential health and economic advantages that increased tree presence can offer ...

Wildfires present complex socio-economic and ecological challenges, as they devastate vegetation, endanger communities, and cause extensive environmental, wildlife, and human health impacts. These consequences include severe air pollution and soaring firefighting costs. Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas, which are transition zones between wilderness and human-developed land, are particularly susceptible to wildfires. The risk is heightened due ...

Con la intención de acercar y facilitar el acceso a toda la información de Bogotá, la Sociedad de Mejoras y Ornato de Bogotá creó la plataforma digital DataCivilidad, una herramienta que recoge cientos de miles de datos de la capital desde hace más de dos siglos para que, tanto personas naturales como organizaciones estatales y ...

Fujitsu Limited and Carnegie Mellon University today announced the development of a new technology to visualize traffic situations, including people and vehicles, as part of joint research on Social Digital Twin that began in 2022. The technology transforms a 2D scene image captured by a monocular RGB camera (1) into a digitalized 3D format using ...

New York City neighborhoods with disrupted community connections, due to traffic, roads, and transport infrastructure, are experiencing an increase in traffic collisions. This increase is seen both in total collisions and for those in which pedestrians or cyclists are injured or killed, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. ...

El Gobierno de la Ciudad y el Tecnológico de Monterrey firmaron un convenio de colaboración para desarrollar una réplica virtual del territorio del municipio, comúnmente conocida como “gemelo digital”. Se trata de una representación virtual de la ciudad que será construida a partir de la cartografía con la que cuenta el Gobierno Municipal en conjunto ...

Il gemello digitale di Brescia è pronto a vedere la luce. Entro l’autunno il Comune si doterà infatti dell’infrastruttura di base (il software) che verrà popolata e modellata a seconda delle esigenze che verranno individuate e ritenute importanti. E una sperimentazione è già attiva e fa riferimento al tracciato della ipotetica linea 3 del tram ...

Arrivano dai dati satellitari gli strumenti per mappare il fenomeno dell’isola di calore urbana e capire come la struttura fisica della città e l’uso del suolo influiscano sul microclima urbano. Se ne parla al convegno che si terrà venerdì 23 febbraio presso il complesso monumentale dell’Acquario Romano, sede dell’Ordine degli Architetti di Roma e Provincia. ...

Geat, società di gestione servizi per l’ambiente e il territorio, è stata incaricata dal Comune di Riccione di condurre un censimento completo del patrimonio arboreo presente sul territorio comunale. Il progetto, avviato nel 2023, ha l’obiettivo di valutare lo stato di salute e la sicurezza di circa 10.500 alberi, pari a un terzo del totale ...

Municipal engineers released a new online resource on Thursday meant for commercial building owners to identify if their building in the Anchorage area contains a roof type that has been blamed for numerous snow-induced collapses. The resource comes as the municipality says the snow load on buildings is approaching 90% of the 40 pounds per ...

Ograniczanie zużycia energii i poprawa komfortu życia mieszkańców – to główne cele projektu NEEST, w którym bierze udział Wrocław. W ramach przedsięwzięcia trwa właśnie tworzenie modelu 3D zabudowy na obszarze między ul. Traugutta a Kościuszki. NEEST to unijny projekt badawczy, którego efektem mają być gotowe modele transformacji energetycznych budynków – nie tylko kamienic, ale również ...

Nowy geoportal zwiększa dostępność i jakość e-usług publicznych w zakresie informacji przestrzennej. Mieszkańcy Małopolski poza dostępem do nowoczesnych rejestrów geodezyjnych i przeglądaniem map będą mogli korzystać z dodatkowych e-usług. Aplikacje mapowe znajdziemy przechodząc do zakładki Katalog Zasobów. Użytkownicy zarejestrowani, którzy założą konto w systemie będą mogli skorzystać z rozszerzonego pakietu dostępnych narzędzi umożliwiających m.in. tworzenie ...

Cities really are hotter than surrounding areas due to the urban heat island effect, first observed in London during the 1800s, explained Binghamton University Associate Professor of Geography Thomas Pingel. The buildings, parking lots and sidewalks absorb heat during the day, releasing it during the night. This excess heat is more than just an annoyance; ...

Zur Gewinnung von Luftbildern des Stadtgebiets wird Frankfurt jährlich beflogen. Dabei entstehen neben den herkömmlichen Luftbildern auch Infrarot-Aufnahmen. Spezielle Sensoren nehmen dabei den Infrarot-Kanal auf, der mit bloßen Augen nicht wahrgenommen werden kann. Dieser wird für die bessere Erkennbarkeit fototechnisch überarbeitet und in der Farbe Rot dargestellt. Als Ergebnis liefern die Infrarotluftbilder wertvolle Informationen über ...

People who live near the Region of Waterloo International Airport know it can get noisy there and that intrigued a group of third-year geography and aviation students at the University of Waterloo. As pilots, Matthew Toy, Chase Cardoza, Nikith Challa and Isabelle Mazzoco know planes can get loud and wanted to look into just how ...