What is your Big Idea for Philadelphia?
Urban Analytics in Philadelphia
We have an ongoing research program in “Urban Analytics”: the quantitative analysis of the planning and functioning of local neighborhoods within large cities. There has been a recent explosion in available data on human activity and behavior in the social sciences. High-resolution data, coupled with recent advances in data science and statistics, allow us to empirically investigate common rhetoric in the planning community. Our goals for this research are to provide more objective evidence-based evaluation of urban theory. The city of Philadelphia is an interesting case study with its recent population growth and substantial urban development.
We use safety as a measure of the health of a neighborhood and explore how it relates to local neighborhood features, including land use zoning, business locations and activity as well as economic measures, population density and traffic features. We will present some preliminary results on the association between business vibrancy and safety as well as spatial modeling of the change in crime in Philadelphia over the past decade. We will also discuss ongoing challenges for the quantitative analysis of urban environments. Learn more at http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/urban-analytics/ and https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/philly-streets-get-test-of-jane-jacobs-eyes-on-the-streeteffect !
We use safety as a measure of the health of a neighborhood and explore how it relates to local neighborhood features, including land use zoning, business locations and activity as well as economic measures, population density and traffic features. We will present some preliminary results on the association between business vibrancy and safety as well as spatial modeling of the change in crime in Philadelphia over the past decade. We will also discuss ongoing challenges for the quantitative analysis of urban environments. Learn more at http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/urban-analytics/ and https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/philly-streets-get-test-of-jane-jacobs-eyes-on-the-streeteffect !
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| Shane T. Jensen Department of Statistics, The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, 463 Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 stjensen(at)wharton.upenn.edu |
Shane T. Jensen is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching since completing his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2004. Dr. Jensen has published over seventy academic papers in statistical methodology for a variety of applied areas, including molecular biology, sports and social science. His current research interests include methodology for high-dimensional biological data, projects in sports analytics and the quantitative study of urbanism. In particular, he is interested in creating empirical measures of neighborhood vibrancy and evaluating the role of vibrancy in the economic and social health of urban areas.
Rachel Thurston is a designer and researcher at Stantec Philadelphia and has always been fascinated by cities. She is originally from the Boston area and studied architecture at Northeastern University. Her career has included projects in urban development, workplace, healthcare, and exhibit design. She began a research project in 2015 with The Wharton School Social Impact Initiative, which is now called Urban Analytics. Her work aims to serve as a quantitative study of urban planning theory.
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