Ekos: The Path to Resilience is a multi-player game exploring issues of urban resilience, social equity and green infrastructure. Ekos is the perfect game to engage your students, to play with friends or family, and to inspire conversation with your community about how cities can understand the interactions among social, ecological, and technological dimensions of cities to build resilience, address inequities, and adapt to climate change and other hazards.
Ocellus is an interactive web application that visualizes Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETS) data designed and implemented initially for nine different cities within the Urban Resilience to Weather-related Extremes (UREx) Sustainability Research Network. It was conceived as a tool to produce knowledge, bridging the gap between quantitative social, ecological and infrastructure data, and the rich and layered qualitative insights compiled at local stakeholder future visioning workshops.
USL work can be placed within 8 converging fields: Big Data & Artificial Intelligence, Community Engagement, Data Visualization & Design, Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice & Equity, Nature-Based Solutions, Urban Policy & Planning, and Urban Climate Resilience.
As of 2016, there were 60 acres of green roofs in New York City. The Urban Systems Lab has been working with students at the New School, partners at The Nature Conservancy, the Brooklyn Grange, the Green Roof Researchers Alliance and the NYC Audubon Society on developing a comprehensive map and understanding of green roof ecology in urban centers. Visit the links below to learn more.
Green Roofs NYC was developed in 2018 by New School students who saw a need to amalgamate various resources and research on the current state of green roofs in the city.
The Urban Systems Lab’s Data Visualization platform provides a detailed map of Green Roofs located in NYC.
As communities worldwide respond to the COVID-19 crisis, the Urban Systems Lab team stands in solidarity with frontline responders and communities working to help those most in need. As our resilience is tested, we are working on a new web page focused on COVID-related analysis of urban dynamics, as well as updates on key research, datasets, and relevant articles. We hope this will provide a useful platform to share strategies, actions, and nurture hope in a time of uncertainty.
