Urban Analytics: History, Trajectory, and Critique

Urban analytics combines spatial analysis, statistics, computer science, and urban planning to understand shape city futures. While it promises better policymaking insights, concerns exist around its epistemological scope impacts on privacy, ethics, social control. This chapter reflects the history trajectory of as a scholarly professional discipline. In particular, considers direction in which this field is going whether improves our collective individual welfare. It first introduces early theories, models, deductive methods from originated before shifting toward induction. then explores network that enrich traditional representations interaction structure. Next discusses applications spatiotemporal big data machine learning. Finally, argues privacy ethical are too often ignored ubiquitous monitoring can empower repression. concludes with call for more critical recognizes limits, emphasizes human dignity, learns supports marginalized communities.