Urban Data Visualization Lab

URBAN PROBLEMS ARE SPATIAL PROBLEMS.

Many of the critical urban issues we face are fundamentally spatial – gentrification, segregation, housing affordability, access to services, mobility, and patterns of investment and disinvestment. Cities are built and rebuilt through continuous interaction between social processes and spatial forms. Visualization helps us better understand, communicate, and solve complex issues. We use visual technologies for mapping, geospatial data analysis, urban design, and modeling the built environment, to derive meaning from our lived experiences and our data. Using spatial visualization helps us communicate across differences and imagine and advocate for alternate urban futures.