Project Team: Timon McPhearson, Luis Ortiz, Ahmed Mustafa, Chris Kennedy, Claudia Tomateo, Daniel Sauter, Z. Grabowski, Pablo Herreros-Cantis, Veronica Olivotto
The USL’s Covid-19 related research aims to integrate survey, social media, building infrastructure, energy demand and use, and social-demographic data with simulations of potential emerging weather-related extremes to examine interdependent social vulnerability to COVID-19 and weather in New York City (NYC).
Project Team: Timon McPhearson, Emily Maxwell, Michael Treglia, Cecilia de Corral
We are collaborating with The Nature Conservancy and Columbia University to produce the most comprehensive assessment of New York City’s green roofs to date. Projects such as Aucher Serr’s Envisioning a New Urban Jungle explore the future of New York’s green roofs through data analysis and visualization.
Our research on green roofs is closely linked with teaching and outreach. The New School’s Green Roof Ecology course — a collaboration with local partners at Brooklyn Grange — gives students a chance to study actual sites and develop related design projects. As part of the Green Roof Researchers Alliance since its inception, USL cosponsored the organization’s State of Green Roofs in NYC Conference with the Audubon Society.
Project Team: Timon McPhearson, Z Grabowski, Pauline Munga
Green infrastructure (GI) is usually assumed to be a benefit everywhere and for everybody in a city. Is this assumption correct? Or are there differences in where and who is served or burdened by GI? This project is a collaboration with the Cary Institute examining green infrastructure plans in 20 U.S. cities with the goal of understanding how best to improve the equity of green infrastructure through policy and practice. The project includes an interactive website and toolkit for city planners, researchers and others to use in considering the equity dimensions of future green infrastructure planning.
Project Team: Timon McPhearson, Daniel Sauter, Claudia Tomateo
Building Resilient Coastal Cities through Smart and Connected Communities was a project to develop a data visualization and user interface design for web platform. This work involved mapping use cases, tools classification and social networks based on different stakeholders’ data from San Juan, Baltimore and Miami workshops. The product was represented in a series of interface workflow in form of storyboard (Screen designs), low fidelity wireframes and animated video mockups of platform usage. The tool is used as a “network of networks”, to help stakeholders map current projects and tools being used in the field and to discourage the duplication of efforts and co-production of knowledge.
