Geospatial Visualization for Urban Revitalization
Metropolis International training Institute Mashhad organised this webinar to highlight the importance of geospatial localisation tools in the urban revitalisation process. In this session, after a background on geospatial localisation in general, we reviewed a couple of redevelopment / revitalisation projects in Victoria, Australia over the last a few years and then explored the concept of the Digital Twins in Fishermans Bend, Melbourne.
Urban renewal, redevelopment, and revitalisation projects have the potential to rehabilitate and better utilise land and space to create employment opportunities, create diverse housing options, stimulate the local economy and attract investments.
Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems have been extensively utilised to assist urban experts to have a better understanding of the proposed urban redevelopment projects. Over the last 30 years, such technologies have been an inseparable part of any large-scale redevelopments.
Digital Twins has also been part of this visualisation journey; and much more than that. In this presentation, after a background on visualisation in general, we reviewed a couple of redevelopment / revitalisation projects in Victoria, Australia over the last a few years and then explored the concept of the Digital Twins in Fishermans Bend, Melbourne.
Data is the unit that moves all systems and computers in the digital city, but its concerns about privacy and management have been rising in the past years. It's important to address them by tracking and enforcing the scope of data collection and then by controlling the uses and commercialization of it.
The digital gender gap is another big problem, being very wide in some regions that even got worse from 2013 to 2016, when the percentage of men minus women with access to the internet grew from 11 to 12%. In the least developed countries, this gap is even bigger with percentages around 31%. And it is noteworthy that in South Asia 26% of women are less likely to have access to a personal smartphone than men.
Luís M. A. Bettencourt, the author of the Issue Paper 8, explains the importance of data in the development of the digital landscape and cities. Bettencourt also recommends to policymakers some actions about the use of data in specific areas related to the governance of metropolises and to use it as a transparency tool for citizens.
- Payam Ghadirian, PhD, Manager, Data Development and Support at Emergency Management Victoria, Greater Melbourne Area
