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Urban Data Acquisition

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This lecture discusses the importance of data in urban diagnostics, focusing on census data and spatial data like satellite images. It emphasizes the need for reliable data to understand and plan cities, highlighting the shift towards open data sources and the impact of digital data on urban analysis.

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Urban planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility.

Spatial analysis

Spatial analysis is any of the formal techniques which studies entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techniques using different analytic approaches, especially spatial statistics. It may be applied in fields as diverse as astronomy, with its studies of the placement of galaxies in the cosmos, or to chip fabrication engineering, with its use of "place and route" algorithms to build complex wiring structures.

Urban density

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Urban economics

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Urban sociology

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