In late December, the U.S. State Department confirmed a Phase 2 of our 2016 Secondary Cities Urbinsight pilots in Medellín, Colombia and Cusco, Peru. They also introduced a third, new Pilot City: Santiago, Dominican Republic.After initial preparation and conversations, Ecocity Builders, the Secondary Cities program,...
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...
Last month the Ecocity Builders team traveled to our pilot city partners in Medellín/Colombia and Cusco/Peru to facilitate professional workshops as well as onsite demos to train communities in how to collect, upload, and visualize data from their own neighborhoods. Part of our Urbinsight platform...