Urban Analyst

This is the documentation of the Urban Analyst platform. Contributions to, or questions regarding, this documentation, are welcome at this GitHub repository.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Overview
• 3. Example
• 4. UA Variables
• 5. Data Sources
• 6. Software and Algorithms

Following the introduction, the second chapter provides a brief overview of the main components of the Urban Analyst platform. This is followed by a walk-through example comparison between Berlin, Germany and Paris, France, illustrating the kinds of comparisons enabled by the Urban Analyst platform. The UA Variables chapter describes all variables included in the Urban Analyst platform, and the final two chapters describe all Data Sources used to derive these variables, and descriptions of all Software and Algorithms used to generate the UA variables, including links to all open-source software repositories.