GIS

This StoryMap is an accompanying piece to the paper Using Spatial Analytics to Address Localized Environmental Harm. Explore below to see how the framework from that paper was applied to hyperlocal air pollution work in Washington, DC.

This was produced as part of the Community Data Health Initiative , generously funded from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Where you live profoundly impacts your health. Across U.S. cities, environmental hazards like air pollution and extreme heat...

On October 8, 2019, the Longmont, CO City Council declared a climate emergency, unanimously passing a resident-initiated Climate Emergency Resolution. Building on community advocacy and interest, this resolution turbo charged sustainability and climate...

Seven years ago, the Data-Smart team covered a unique program in Los Angeles, the Clean Streets LA initiative called CleanStat, that was “ turning dirty streets clean through comprehensive open data mapping.” In the near decade since this program launched...

In this episode, host Stephen Goldsmith interviews Anika-Aduesa Smart, the director of GIS at LA Metro. Smart shares her path to this work and how her extensive experience informs her people-first approach - and her mantra "good data, better technology...

Some of the world’s best discoveries have been accidents; sticky notes, penicillin, the chocolate chip cookie. For Anika-Aduesa Smart, one of her best professional discoveries was an accident as well, one that she built into an impressive career in...

In this episode host Stephen Goldsmith interviews Alan Clinton, the administrative planning officer for the county of Kaua'i, about the county's Sea Level Rise Constraint District Viewer, an a ward-winning data visualization for protecting and preserving...

According to the US Geological Survey, “sea-level rise is resulting in chronic erosion on many Hawaiian beaches. On the island of Kaua’i, approximately 73% of sandy shorelines are currently retreating inland.” While a healthy beach could temporarily gain...

In the spring of 2023, the Data-Smart City Solutions team at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) hosted 30 large-city chiefs of staff at the school, and asked whether their cities’ chief equity officers would be interested in joining a community of practice...