[SeasonOfDocs] SeasonOfDocs - Disruptive Technologies in Cities

Tue May 28 01:42:47 PDT 2019

Dear All,

Just to chip in our interesting from a City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney perspective.

We are currently developing a Disruptive Technologies in Cities educational module which uses Citydata (Geonode) https://citydata.be.unsw.edu.au for sourcing Airbnb data, then inputs this into QGIS for some City Analytics to understand spatial patterns of Airbnb usage across different cities and within existing cities

If it aligns where this SeasonofDocs initiative is going we would to  be happy to contribute this via tutorial, and videos.

A couple of related publications:

Pettit, C.J.  Ticzon,C . Reades, J. Wentz, E.. Ong, P. Martin, C. Troy, L. Crommelin, L. (2018) How Disruptive Technology is Impacting the Housing and Property Markets in Real Estate and GIS The Application of Mapping Technologies, (Reed, R, Pettit, C, eds)  Routledge, pp36-64.

Crommelin, L., Troy, L. Martin, C. Pettit, C. (2018). "Is Airbnb a sharing economy superstar? Evidence from five global cities." Urban Policy and Research: 1-16.

Any thoughts, interest?

Regards

Chris

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Chris Pettit
Professor of Urban Science
Director – City Analytics Program
Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre
PLuS Alliance Fellow

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Latest Publications

Journals

Pettit, C. Hawken, S, Ticzon, C Steinitz, C, Ballal H. T. Cranfield. Leao, S. Afrooz, A, Lieske, S. (2019) Breaking down the silos through geodesign – Envisioning Sydney’s urban future,  Environment and Planning B:  Urban Analytics and City Science.

Lu, Y., Laffan, S., Pettit, C., & Cao, M. (2019). Land use change simulation and analysis using a vector cellular automata (CA) model: A case study of Ipswich City, Queensland, Australia. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319830971

Pettit, C., Bakelmun, A., Lieske, S.N., Glackin, S., Thomson, G., Shearer, H., Dia, H. and Newman, P., (2018). Planning support systems for smart cities. City, Culture and Society., pp 13-24.

Taylor, A. & Pettit, C. (2018) Are Health Services in New South Wales Available Where They are Needed? Using AURIN to Understand the Equity of Service Distribution and Future Demand, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, pp1-25.

Crommelin, L., Troy, L. Martin, C. Pettit, C. (2018). "Is Airbnb a sharing economy superstar? Evidence from five global cities." Urban Policy and Research: 1-16.

Books

Geertman, S., Zhan, Q, Allan, A., Pettit, C.J (2019) Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities, Springer International Publishing.

Pettit, C., Crommelin, L., Sharam, A. and Hulse, K., (2018). The potential of new technologies to disrupt housing policy,  AHURI, Melbourne.

Pettit, C., Liu, E., Rennie, E., Goldenfein, J. and Glackin, S., (2018). Understanding the disruptive technology ecosystem in Australian urban and housing contexts: a roadmap, AHURI, Melbourne.

Reed, R. and C. Pettit (2018). Real Estate and GIS: The Application of Mapping Technologies, Routledge.

Book Chapters

Pettit, C. Hawken, S, Nakanishi, H. (2019) Geodesign - A Tale of 3 Cities, In Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities. Springer International Publishing.

Afrooz, A.E. Ding, L., Pettit, C. (2019). An immersive 3D virtual environment to support collaborative learning and teaching, In Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities. Springer International Publishing.

From: SeasonOfDocs <seasonofdocs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Jo Cook
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 4:12 AM
To: seasonofdocs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [SeasonOfDocs] Best practice links

Hi All,

I've been adding a few links on good practice when writing documentation to our ideas page at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates. This includes things like "words to avoid", particularly when writing documentation aimed at new users.

For example something that has bugged me for years, but is summed up really well in one of the links, is using words like "just..." and "simply..." particularly when followed by an instruction to install something with npm or pip, or create a virtual environment. These things are all straightforward when you're familiar with the tools, but as a new user you may need to go through several steps first to get set up with npm/pip/virtual environments, and it's extremely discouraging if you feel that you can't event get to stage one.

It would be good to hear from everyone about other phrases or words that we should avoid using, and it would be even better, when we get a few more links, to try to distil the suggestions into something that could be added to a best practice document, almost like a checklist.

All the best

Jo

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