S5E1 - Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through AI (Arianna Salazar-Miranda)

Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces through AI (Arianna Salazar-Miranda)

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Arianna Salazar-Miranda is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Data Science at the Yale School of the environment. She is the author of Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through AI (with Zhuangyuan Fan, Michael Baick, Keith N. Hampton, Fabio Duarte, Becky P. Y. Loo, Edward Glaeser, and Carlo Ratti).

Appendices:

Arianna Salazar-Miranda: The World in the Year 2000

Greg Shill: Sidewalk Government and Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource by Michael Pollack.

Jeff Lin: What Holly Whyte’s “Social Life” Film Can Teach Us Today by Anne Tan-Detchkov at Project for Public Spaces discusses the film in question and Statistical Models and Shoe Leather by David Freedman discusses regression analysis and advocates for broader, holistic observational work within the social sciences.

Follow us on the web and on Bluesky at @jeffrlin.bsky.social and @gregshill.com.

Producer: Nathan Spindler-Krage

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