Mobility in the 15-Minute City
Abstract
Is there a hidden downside to the design ideal of the15-minute city? Join us for a talk by incoming YSE Professor Arianna Salazar-Miranda, whose work focuses on how emerging technologies can be leveraged to design more sustainable urban environments. She will present her recent analysis of the possible unexpected consequences of the 15-minute city, including increased social segregation. She will also provide an overview of her ongoing research exploring how urban planning paradigms can lead to more sustainable mobility outcomes.
Speaker Information
Arianna Salazar-Miranda is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Data Science at the Yale School of the Environment. Her research focuses on the relationship between urban planning, the built environment, human behavior, and sustainability. To study this topic, she uses a wide range of computational methods and large-scale, high-resolution data such as street imagery, social media, GPS, LiDAR, and sensors.
Recently, she has studied the impact of urban planning policies that aim to reduce vehicular traffic and promote local living on environmental and social outcomes. Additionally, she has developed digital tools in partnership with cities and communities to inform their sustainability efforts. Some examples include developing a framework for measuring transportation modes from real-time imagery and mapping one of Brazil's largest informal settlements using LiDAR data.
Professor Salazar-Miranda received her Ph.D. in Computational Urban Science and Planning, an M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT, and a Licentiate degree in Architecture from Veritas University, Costa Rica.
