The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) cordially invites you to
join us for the next talk in the fall semester of our 2018-2019 invited speaker series:
“The
Legibility of Urban Spatial Order in Computational Street Network Analysis”
Geoff Boeing
Assistant Professor, Urban Informatics and Planning
School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
Thursday, October 18, 2018
3 PM - 4:30 PM
West Village G Room 102, Northeastern University
450 Parker Street
Boston, MA 02115
Abstract: Human movement through cities is largely constrained to pre-designed
spatial networks that embody values of power, aesthetics, and prevailing technology. The quality of urban spaces – and for whom these spaces perform – rests upon these outcomes of urban design and architecture. Although circulation networks critically underlie
city mobility and human dynamics, it can be difficult to acquire and consistently analyze high-quality network data. This talk presents new urban data science methods to explore city spatial structure and circulation worldwide – including in developing countries.
It considers how to understand urban equity, resilience, accessibility, and human mobility using open-source software and collaboratively-generated, free data. Finally, it introduces several tools and methods to understand, visualize, re-think, and communicate
complicated urban patterns and spatial outcomes.
About the speaker: Geoff Boeing is an Assistant Professor of urban informatics and planning in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University.
He is a faculty affiliate of the Network Science Institute and the Global Resilience Institute as well as a core faculty member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California,
Berkeley. His work revolves around urban form, spatial networks, and data science. Recent projects have focused on 1, the nature and character of urban street networks around the world and 2, how data availability shapes our understanding of housing affordability.
He developed and maintains the OSMnx street network modeling software.
About NUVis: The
Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) is an interdisciplinary cross-university initiative to support the university’s research efforts in visualization and to connect faculty, researchers, and students across campus to foster a visualization
community. Northeastern University’s interdisciplinary focus and structure is an ideal environment for such an interdisciplinary field of study, and the goal of NUVis, funded through a collaboration between the College of Arts, Media and Design and the College
of Computer and Information Science, is to continue to foster and grow this important area of research. NUVis sponsors talks and symposia including a bi-weekly seminar, connects faculty and students through its online portal, provides resources to support
visualization-related research at the university through avenues including workshops and library-sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions.