Join us in commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) program at GIS Day 2024. GIS Day 2024 is hosted by the Research Data and Digital Scholarship, Penn Libraries, and the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA).
The keynote speech Exploring Cities through the Lens of Urban Analytics will be given by Andrew Crooks, Professor within the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo (UB).
For the first time in human history, more people are living in cities than rural areas and this trend is only expected to grow in the coming decades. This growth will place unprecedented challenges on cites with respect to sustainable development especially in light of climate change and increasing populations. One way to explore and understand cities is through the lens of urban analytics, a set of methods that allow us to monitor, analyze and model urban areas. This talk will explore how urban analytics has changed over time and showcase how our understanding of cities has benefited from it. I will showcase how new sources of data can be used to monitor and analyze cities and how in turn these can be integrated into models to explore various aspects of city life from pedestrian movement to urban growth. The talk will conclude with a discussion and demonstration of how artificial intelligence can be integrated into the urban analytics toolbox and what opportunities and challenges it poses.
Providing expert commentary on urban topics and highlighting Penn IUR's research in the context of pressing urban issues.
