Stephen Law

Jane Jacobs in the Sky: Predicting Urban Vitality with Open Satellite Data

The presence of people in an urban area throughout the day -- often called `urban vitality' -- is one of the qualities world-class cities aspire to the most, yet it is one of the hardest to achieve. Back in the 1970s, Jane Jacobs theorized urban vitality and found that there are four conditions required for the promot…