Each year CASA master’s students demonstrate their spatial data visualisation skills with a group project. The theme this year was ‘Urban Futures’, and students have produced some very impressive and diverse work, experimenting with a range of visualisation tools and techniques. Click on the images below to visit the project websites.
Urban Resilience Projects
Two groups explored at urban resilience and climate change. Some excellent interactive mapping work was created analysing Urban Heat Island effects in the Greater Bay Area of China (one of the world’s largest and fastest growing city regions) and at the potential impacts of sea level rise in New York City.
Transport Sustainability Projects
Transport sustainability was another popular topic in urban futures. This included investigating 15 Minute City Accessibility in London (mapping the recent UBDC data), exploring the sustainability of the freight and logistics industry in the USA, and mapping the growth and sustainability of Los Angeles.
Economic Change and Innovation Projects
Several groups explored different aspects of economic futures. This included analysing the UK’s international trade and sub-regional performance using interactive dashboards; and charting innovation policy in Singapore and its international competitiveness with animated charts and mapping.
The phenomenon of mobile knowledge economy workers or Digital Nomads was explored in terms of analysing London compared to other global cities. Finally the importance of the Creative Industries to the UK economy was visualised using interactive maps and charts.
Social Change and Ageing Societies Projects
Another increasingly important aspect of urban futures is planning for ageing societies. Two groups explored this topic, the first looking more particularly at ageing societies and facilities globally and with the case study of Bournemouth, and the second group exploring ageing societies both globally and in Manchester.
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