Rethinking smart cities: An open-source tool for urban data collection
A large part of urban planning involves navigating how people experience a place. That kind of insight can require collecting dat…
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Rethinking smart cities: An open-source tool for urban data collection
A large part of urban planning involves navigating how people experience a place. That kind of insight can require collecting data at a level of detail that large-scale datasets cannot provide.
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