Habitat III came to an end yesterday night. Since then, airplanes have, in clockwork 10-minute intervals, made Quito a little less cosmopolitan. The city will be lonelier, but the world will probably become a better place. This week I had the once-in-every-two-decades opportunity to attend the...
“When data is made available to people, it catalyzes innovation, be it within departments, interagency, or with citizens,” explains Shannon McElvaney, Community Development Industry Manager at Esri, “Anybody doing research is starving for data. If they have information to work with, they can help planning...
Son V. Nghiem, a member of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech, shows the audience maps derived from satellite data. In a sky-blue to deep red gradient, he maps the horizontal expansion and vertical build-up of the world’s largest megacities. The celerity of urbanization...
It’s a crisp and clear morning in Quito, and Booth 59 in Section B of the Habitat III exhibition area is up and running. Through a private-public partnership between the US Department of State, Esri, and Ecocity Builders, about a dozen participants at Booth 59...
In 1987, the United Nations publication, “Our Common Future,” also known as the Brundtland Report, first popularized the concept and definition of sustainable development. “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Today,...