Commentary: A road map for future data-driven urban planning and environmental health research

Georgia M.C. Dyer; Sasha Khomenko; Deepti Adlakha; Susan Anenberg; Julianna Angelova; Martin Behnisch; Geoff Boeing; Xuan Chen; Marta Cirach; Kees de Hoogh; Ana V Diez Roux; Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez; Benjamin Flueckiger; Antonio Gasparrini; Tamara Iungman; Haneen Khreis; Michelle Kondo; Pierre Masselot; Robert I McDonald; Federica Montana; Rich Mitchell; Natalie Mueller; M. Omar Nawaz; Evelise Pereira; Enrico Pisoni; Rafael Prieto-Curiel; Nazanin Rezaei; Diego Rybski; José J. Ramasco; Rossano Schifanella; Saif Shabou; Lambed Tatah; Hannes Taubenböck; Cathryn Tonne; Daniel Velázquez-Cortés; James Woodcock; Qin Zhang; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2024.105340

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Commentary: A road map for future data-driven urban planning and environmental health research

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Authors:

Georgia M.C. Dyer, Sasha Khomenko, Deepti Adlakha, Susan Anenberg, Julianna Angelova, Martin Behnisch, Geoff Boeing, Xuan Chen, Marta Cirach, Kees de Hoogh, Ana V Diez Roux, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, Benjamin Flueckiger, Antonio Gasparrini, Tamara Iungman, Haneen Khreis, Michelle Kondo, Pierre Masselot, Robert I McDonald, Federica Montana, Rich Mitchell, Natalie Mueller, M. Omar Nawaz, Evelise Pereira, Enrico Pisoni, Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Nazanin Rezaei, Diego Rybski, José J. Ramasco, Rossano Schifanella, Saif Shabou, Lambed Tatah, Hannes Taubenböck, Cathryn Tonne, Daniel Velázquez-Cortés, James Woodcock, Qin Zhang, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen

Year:

2024

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Northern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105340

Source:

Cities

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Abstract

Recent advances in data science and urban environmental health research utilise large-scale databases (100s–1000s of cities) to explore the complex interplay of urban characteristics such as city form and size, climate, mobility, exposure, and environmental health impacts. Cities are still hotspots of air pollution and noise, suffer urban heat island effects and lack of green space, which leads to disease and mortality burdens preventable with better knowledge. Better understanding through harmonising and analysing data in large numbers of cities is essential to identifying the most effective means of disease prevention and understanding context dependencies important for policy.

Keywords

urban and transport planning, urban environmental health research, urban indicators, urban data inventory, GeoAI, urban policy

Citation

Dyer, Georgia M.C.; Khomenko, Sasha; Adlakha, Deepti; Anenberg, Susan; Angelova, Julianna; Behnisch, Martin; Boeing, Geoff; Chen, Xuan; Cirach, Marta; de Hoogh, Kees; Diez Roux, Ana V.; Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel; Flueckiger, Benjamin; Gasparrini, Antonio; Iungman, Tamara; Khreis, Haneen; Kondo, Michelle C.; Masselot, Pierre; McDonald, Robert I.; Montana, Federica; Mitchell, Rich; Mueller, Natalie; Nawaz, M. Omar; Pereira, Evelise; Pisoni, Enrico; Prieto-Curiel, Rafael; Rezaei, Nazanin; Rybski, Diego; Ramasco, José J.; Schifanella, Rossano; Shabou, Saif; Tatah, Lambed; Taubenböck, Hannes; Tonne, Cathryn; Velázquez-Cortés, Daniel; Woodcock, James; Zhang, Qin; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark. 2024. Commentary: A road map for future data-driven urban planning and environmental health research. Cities. 155: 105340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105340.