Anna Kovacs-Györi
successfully defended her PhD Thesis “Defining and Assessing Urban
Livability”.
Cities are complex systems
and the task of accounting for this complexity in improving city quality is
immense. International initiatives often focus on the improvement of the urban
quality to address urban challenges. The concept of livability can support
these endeavours by depicting the complex urban system and its components
through the lens of this person-environment relationship.
In her PhD research, Anna
investigated how urban livability assessment combined with geospatial analysis
methodologies offer a way to reduce this complexity of the urban systems and
livability itself by handling the characteristics and phenomena of cities
systematically.
Questionnaires, assessment
platforms, spatiotemporal and sentiment analysis of social media data, or
biosensors quantifying human perception have been used to assess the
elements of the person-environment relationship and thereby livability.
By considering the spatial
and temporal characteristics of the data using GIS, researchers,
decision-makers, urban planners and other stake-holders can gain valuable
insights on urban liveability, also by identifying less well-performing areas
and elements of a city.
More information about
Anna’s research can be found at https://twitter.com/arrabonusannie
We wish Anna all the best
on her future road of life!
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