Pathways to urban sustainability: Design perspectives on a data curation and visualization platform

Abstract

Current computing methods addressing climate change employ open data platforms, interactive maps, and predictive modeling to support policy analysis, evaluate effects of policies, and support information access. These data exploration and analysis tools carry beautiful visions, including helping people better understand their cities, making communities’ challenges transparent, and facilitating systematic approaches to decision making for sustainability issues. They are also limited, and the reality they partake in turns out to be more nuanced. The tools that help us to get to know a city through ∗ Both authors contributed equally to this research.