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Quercia previously helped develop “Chatty Maps” and “Smelly Maps” of city sounds and odors by scraping data from social media. The latter project found strong correlations between people’s olfactory perceptions and more conventional air-quality indicators. With GoGreenRoutes, he’ll be using wearable technologies to assess whether design improvements to new and existing green spaces have the predicted (and desired) impact on people’s well-being.
Why Sounds and Smells Are as Vital to Cities as the Sights
Jennifer Hattam
You could yank a knife from a patient’s heart and still watch him bleed to death.
Any plan to sufficiently capture land values has to contend with the existing political economy of our cities, and, as it stands, U.S. urban policy is dominated by propertied interests.
Rents Are Skyrocketing. Let’s Buy Back the Land. | NOEMA
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