Can Data Have a Heart?
In the midst of the complex societal issue of homelessness, urban parks can often be the visible and symbolic front line.
Urban Land, the publication of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), published an article by principal Liz von Goeler, NCIDQ, LEED AP ID+C, CDT and co-director of Sasaki Strategies, Brad Barnett, that discusses weaving data, virtual reality, and analytical tools into all stages of design and development.
In the article, von Goeler and Barnett describe how big data aids design decisions, from using virtual and augmented reality to inform building site selection to using district-scale data visualizations to inform mixed-used development ratios.
Read the full article here.
In the midst of the complex societal issue of homelessness, urban parks can often be the visible and symbolic front line.
In a time when we can assemble and analyze vast quantities of incidental data, it seems that "surplus" often supplants "necessity" as the "mother of invention."