The Pilot Atlas presents a number of ways to understand structural issues of homelessness in Canada by using dynamic graphical representations.
Tracey Lauriault
Project Research Leader,
Carleton University
Abstract:
The Census is the only national public policy tool that collects data with a large enough sample size to report findings at small sub-municipal geographic scales. The loss of the long-form census may impede researchers and community based organizations from conducting neighbourhood analysis. Other surveys conducted by Statistics Canada do not have a large enough sample size to fill this gap. Canadians may be left with analyzes on a variety of public policy issues only at the city or metropolitan area scale. This would impede the ability for place based analysis and location specific action. Neighbourhood scale research using Census data will be discussed, The Cybercartographic Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness created at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research and other examples from community based research initiatives such as the Community Data Consortium will be presented. This will include maps and data about social issues in Canadian cities & metropolitan areas (e.g. Calgary, Toronto, Halton, Sault Ste. Marie, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, & others) to demonstrate the importance of local analysis. The impact of the loss for evidence based decision making for communities in Canada’s will be the key element of the discussion.
Jan 2015 talk to SW Data Meetup by Kevin O'Malley, City Innovation Team Manager, Bristol City Council. BCC has been exploring the potential of open data to transform the City and Council Services. Kevin O’Malley will outline some of the initiatives undertaken to date, demonstrate some new resources for the developer community, and highlight some exciting upcoming opportunities.
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Professor Vonu Thakuriah from the University of Glasgow presents at the University's Commonwealth Future Cities Business Networking event on the 24th July 2014
8. City Science: Urban Big Data and New Urban SystemsMITEF México
Data-driven analysis of economic
activity, human behavior, mobility
patterns, resource consumption, etc.
in order to inform an evidence-based
process of designing new cities
Abstract:
The Census is the only national public policy tool that collects data with a large enough sample size to report findings at small sub-municipal geographic scales. The loss of the long-form census may impede researchers and community based organizations from conducting neighbourhood analysis. Other surveys conducted by Statistics Canada do not have a large enough sample size to fill this gap. Canadians may be left with analyzes on a variety of public policy issues only at the city or metropolitan area scale. This would impede the ability for place based analysis and location specific action. Neighbourhood scale research using Census data will be discussed, The Cybercartographic Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness created at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research and other examples from community based research initiatives such as the Community Data Consortium will be presented. This will include maps and data about social issues in Canadian cities & metropolitan areas (e.g. Calgary, Toronto, Halton, Sault Ste. Marie, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, & others) to demonstrate the importance of local analysis. The impact of the loss for evidence based decision making for communities in Canada’s will be the key element of the discussion.
Jan 2015 talk to SW Data Meetup by Kevin O'Malley, City Innovation Team Manager, Bristol City Council. BCC has been exploring the potential of open data to transform the City and Council Services. Kevin O’Malley will outline some of the initiatives undertaken to date, demonstrate some new resources for the developer community, and highlight some exciting upcoming opportunities.
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Professor Vonu Thakuriah from the University of Glasgow presents at the University's Commonwealth Future Cities Business Networking event on the 24th July 2014
8. City Science: Urban Big Data and New Urban SystemsMITEF México
Data-driven analysis of economic
activity, human behavior, mobility
patterns, resource consumption, etc.
in order to inform an evidence-based
process of designing new cities
Building Proxy Indicators of National Wellbeing with Postal Data - Project Ov...UN Global Pulse
This study investigated for the first time the potential of using the network of international postal flows to approximate socioeconomic indicators typically used to benchmark national wellbeing. The research used aggregated electronic postal records from 187 countries collected by the Universal Postal Union from 2010 to 2014 as a proxy indicator for real-world conditions.
Cite as: “Building Proxy Indicators of National Wellbeing with Postal Data”, Global Pulse Project Series, no. 22, 2016
For the first time, more people live in cities than in rural areas, bringing new challenges. ICT is playing a critical role in addressing these challenges and benefiting society.
Presented by: Jean-Noe Landry (Open North) & Dr Tracey P. Lauriault (Carleton University) & Rachel Bloom (Open North)
Content Contributors: David Fewer CIPPIC, Mark Fox U. of Toronto, Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Partner Cities: City of Edmonton, City of Guelph, Ville de Montréal & City of Ottawa
Project Name: Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date: August 30, 2017
Using advertising data to model migration, poverty and digital gender gapsIngmar Weber
Talk given at the Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS 2019). https://qcai.qcri.org/index.php/events/mldas-2019/.
Contact me if you're interested in the topic of poverty mapping or data for development in general.
The main goal of this book chapter is to present a framework for analysis of online participation platforms. Recently, the whole range of various participation platforms emerged and there is a need for a model, which would enable to analyze their specific characteristics. The framework presented in this chapter, the participatory cube, is based on models proposed by Fung (2006) and Ferber et al. (2007). It consists of three axes which include interactive communication, access to space of participation, and decision power. These three categories play a major role in the analysis of the implemented study cases. The study cases were taken from two countries; Germany and Brazil. We concentrated on the selection of a variety of different examples of technologies that support to give voice to citizens either as an actor or as principal interlocutor of civil society organizations, aiming to offer, inform or try new ways and solutions to problems and issues raised by contemporary urban life. The participatory cube served as the model for the comparison of the selected cases. We conclude the article with a discussion about the framewok and further research directions.
Wellbeing Toronto is a dynamic map visualization tool that helps evaluate community wellbeing across Toronto's 140 neighbourhoods on a number of factors including as crime, transportation and housing. It’s used by decision-makers that need data to support neighbourhood level planning, residents that want information to better understand the communities they live, work, and play in; and businesses needing indicators to learn more about their customers.
But it’s more than just a map.
In this session, Wellbeing Toronto Project Manager Mat Krepicz takes you on a tour of Wellbeing Toronto and share candid insights on its development including key lessons learned, mistakes made, and preview what’s next for one of Canada’s most robust community indicator platforms.
Quantified Self movement allows to collect a lot of
personal data which can be used to nurture the model
of the users. Evenly, when aggregated, these personal
data become a picture of the people of a space in a City
Model. This model can be fed also by data coming from
crowdsensing. The resulting City Model can be used to
provide personalized services to citizen, and to increase
people awareness about their behaviour that can help
in promoting collective behavioural change. The paper
When Two Worlds Collide: Data Strategy and Strategic Planning for 'Smart Gove...Sarah Barns
The rise of the data economy and support for ‘government as platform’ models of digital governance have seen growing appetite among city governments to invest in public-facing dashboards, which use open data channels to promote greater transparency in the monitoring a city’s well-being and functional performance. Well known examples include the London Data Store, the Dublin Dashboard and the NYC Open Data.
As the dashboard model grows traction and is embraced by Australian governments, this paper reflects on the institutional design of city dashboards, as they cut across the worlds of ICT policy and strategic urban planning. Based on recent case study research across Sydney, London and New York, this presentation compares a series of dashboard examples with a view to understanding the relationship between data-driven discovery programs, open data release channels or platforms, and the mechanisms of city performance management and strategic planning. In particular, it addresses the ‘back end’ support programs that support data discovery and harvesting; the challenges of persistent ‘data shadows’; and the forums needed to support alignment between data discovery, citizen engagement and strategic planning.
The analysis highlights the need to address the rise of city dashboards not simply as end products, but as more open-ended processes through which decision-makers, researchers and urbanists and technologists can seek to test the potential for data-driven methodologies to guide responses to contemporary city challenges.
These graphics were prepared for a brief presentation introducing myself to my co-workers in a new office. There are over 60 graphic slides, but I'm confident I'll be able to move through them quickly and be finished in less than 10 minutes.
Building Proxy Indicators of National Wellbeing with Postal Data - Project Ov...UN Global Pulse
This study investigated for the first time the potential of using the network of international postal flows to approximate socioeconomic indicators typically used to benchmark national wellbeing. The research used aggregated electronic postal records from 187 countries collected by the Universal Postal Union from 2010 to 2014 as a proxy indicator for real-world conditions.
Cite as: “Building Proxy Indicators of National Wellbeing with Postal Data”, Global Pulse Project Series, no. 22, 2016
For the first time, more people live in cities than in rural areas, bringing new challenges. ICT is playing a critical role in addressing these challenges and benefiting society.
Presented by: Jean-Noe Landry (Open North) & Dr Tracey P. Lauriault (Carleton University) & Rachel Bloom (Open North)
Content Contributors: David Fewer CIPPIC, Mark Fox U. of Toronto, Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Partner Cities: City of Edmonton, City of Guelph, Ville de Montréal & City of Ottawa
Project Name: Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date: August 30, 2017
Using advertising data to model migration, poverty and digital gender gapsIngmar Weber
Talk given at the Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS 2019). https://qcai.qcri.org/index.php/events/mldas-2019/.
Contact me if you're interested in the topic of poverty mapping or data for development in general.
The main goal of this book chapter is to present a framework for analysis of online participation platforms. Recently, the whole range of various participation platforms emerged and there is a need for a model, which would enable to analyze their specific characteristics. The framework presented in this chapter, the participatory cube, is based on models proposed by Fung (2006) and Ferber et al. (2007). It consists of three axes which include interactive communication, access to space of participation, and decision power. These three categories play a major role in the analysis of the implemented study cases. The study cases were taken from two countries; Germany and Brazil. We concentrated on the selection of a variety of different examples of technologies that support to give voice to citizens either as an actor or as principal interlocutor of civil society organizations, aiming to offer, inform or try new ways and solutions to problems and issues raised by contemporary urban life. The participatory cube served as the model for the comparison of the selected cases. We conclude the article with a discussion about the framewok and further research directions.
Wellbeing Toronto is a dynamic map visualization tool that helps evaluate community wellbeing across Toronto's 140 neighbourhoods on a number of factors including as crime, transportation and housing. It’s used by decision-makers that need data to support neighbourhood level planning, residents that want information to better understand the communities they live, work, and play in; and businesses needing indicators to learn more about their customers.
But it’s more than just a map.
In this session, Wellbeing Toronto Project Manager Mat Krepicz takes you on a tour of Wellbeing Toronto and share candid insights on its development including key lessons learned, mistakes made, and preview what’s next for one of Canada’s most robust community indicator platforms.
Quantified Self movement allows to collect a lot of
personal data which can be used to nurture the model
of the users. Evenly, when aggregated, these personal
data become a picture of the people of a space in a City
Model. This model can be fed also by data coming from
crowdsensing. The resulting City Model can be used to
provide personalized services to citizen, and to increase
people awareness about their behaviour that can help
in promoting collective behavioural change. The paper
When Two Worlds Collide: Data Strategy and Strategic Planning for 'Smart Gove...Sarah Barns
The rise of the data economy and support for ‘government as platform’ models of digital governance have seen growing appetite among city governments to invest in public-facing dashboards, which use open data channels to promote greater transparency in the monitoring a city’s well-being and functional performance. Well known examples include the London Data Store, the Dublin Dashboard and the NYC Open Data.
As the dashboard model grows traction and is embraced by Australian governments, this paper reflects on the institutional design of city dashboards, as they cut across the worlds of ICT policy and strategic urban planning. Based on recent case study research across Sydney, London and New York, this presentation compares a series of dashboard examples with a view to understanding the relationship between data-driven discovery programs, open data release channels or platforms, and the mechanisms of city performance management and strategic planning. In particular, it addresses the ‘back end’ support programs that support data discovery and harvesting; the challenges of persistent ‘data shadows’; and the forums needed to support alignment between data discovery, citizen engagement and strategic planning.
The analysis highlights the need to address the rise of city dashboards not simply as end products, but as more open-ended processes through which decision-makers, researchers and urbanists and technologists can seek to test the potential for data-driven methodologies to guide responses to contemporary city challenges.
These graphics were prepared for a brief presentation introducing myself to my co-workers in a new office. There are over 60 graphic slides, but I'm confident I'll be able to move through them quickly and be finished in less than 10 minutes.
The MDCT ‐ Municipal Data Collection Tool ‐ is a collaborative, on‐line database allowing Quality of Life Reporting System (QOLRS) members to build and share municipal administrative data in areas of municipal responsibility.
Michel Frojmovic
Consultant,
Acacia Consulting and Research
Ms. Tracey P. Lauriault discusses neighbourhood scale research using Census data. She introduces The Cybercartographic Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness created at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research and will feature community based research (Halton, Hamilton and Saulth Ste. Marie) used to inform public policy as part of the Canadian Social Data Strategy (CSDS). She will feature maps and data about social issues in Canadian cities & metropolitan areas (e.g. Calgary, Toronto, Halton, Sault Ste. Marie, Ottawa, Montreal, & others) and will focus on the importance of local analysis and what the loss of the Long-Form Census could mean to evidence based decision making to communities in Canada’s.
Abstract:
Ms. Tracey P. Lauriault discusses neighbourhood scale research using Census data. She introduces the The Cybercartographic Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness created at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research and will feature community based research used to inform public policy as part of the Canadian Social Data Strategy (CSDS) . She features maps and data about social issues in Canadian cities & metropolitan areas (e.g. Calgary, Toronto, Halton, Sault Ste. Marie, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, & others) and focuses on the importance of local analysis and what the loss of the Long-Form Census could mean to evidence based decision making to communities in Canada’s. She will also discuss issues surrounding the cancellation of the long-form census in Canada.
Who:
Tracey P. Lauriault is a researcher at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University and is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. She participates in activities and represents the GCRC on topics related to the access to and the preservation of Data. She was the Research Leader for the Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness funded by HRSDC, part of the Project Management Team for the Cybercartography and the New Economy Project responsible for collaboration, transdisciplinary research, organizational theory and lead researcher of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica Case Study for the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 2 and General Study of Archival Policies of Science Data Archives/Repositories.
Currently, she is working on the Canadian Social Data Strategy a project of Canadian Council on Social Development as a Research Associate with Acacia Consulting and Research. Her PhD dissertation is on mapping data access discourses in Canada. She is co-founder of CivicAccces.ca, ogWiFi.ca and co-author of datalibre.ca which hosts Census Watch.
Presentation by Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC): ‘Urban Empires - Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World’
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (August, 2016)
“Domains of Deprivation Framework” for Mapping Slums, Informal Settlements, and other Deprived Areas in LMICs to improve urban planning and policy: A Scoping Review
Telling the Story: Transforming Data & Evidence into a Compelling Narrative t...Joshua Engel-Yan
What is the story in your data? Using the example of the Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan, this presentation shows how data visualization and storytelling can be used to transform data into knowledge and action. The Metrolinx business case framework is introduced as a consistent and robust evidence-based framework to evaluate projects.
• Examples of Data visualization and storytelling with transportation models
• Mapping project benefits and impacts to explain the value proposition
• Mining new data sources, including PRESTO business intelligence, to better understand and illustrate customer behaviour
Note:
Interactivity and animation are lost when the slides are converted to PDF.
Abstract:
In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell). While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books, government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
CUGOS Spring Fling Presentation April 15, 2016 Open Data in Cape Town South Africa and the NGOs that work with it including VPUU and Code for South Africa.
Understanding and predicting urban dynamics through new forms of geo-social d...Achilleas Psyllidis
The recent emergence of new forms of geo-social data, deriving from social media, sensors, and mobile phones, calls for an update to the methodological toolbox of social sciences. The new methods and tools need to harmonise with the inherent characteristics and challenges of the emerging data sources. This talk demonstrates how SocialGlass, a web-based system for (real-time) urban analytics, helps improve the understanding of human dynamics in modern-day cities, by capitalising on new geo-social data and pioneering data science techniques. Emphasis is on real-world applications, regarding social area analysis, crowd dynamics during large-scale events, and location prediction of new urban functions across different cities.
Presentation at the Centre for BOLD (Big, Open & Linked Data) Cities anniversary meet-up | Erasmus University Rotterdam -- May 29, 2017
Graham, Stephen. "Bridging urban digital divides? Urban polarisation and info...Stephen Graham
The societal diffusion of information and communications technologies (ICTs) remains starkly uneven at all scales. It is in the contemporary city that this unevenness becomes most visible. In cities, clusters and enclaves of ‘superconnected’ people, rms and institutions often rest cheek-by-jowel with large numbers of people with non-existent or rudimentary access to communications technologies. In such a context, this paper has two objectives, reected in its two parts. The rst part of the paper seeks to demonstrate that dominant trends in ICT develop- ment are currently helping to support new extremes of social and geographical unevenness within and between human settlements and cities, in both the North and the South. The paper’s second part aims to explore the prospect that such stark ‘urban digital divides’ might be ameliorated through progressive and innovative policy initiatives which treat cities and electronic technologies in parallel. It does this using a range of illustrative exemplars from a variety of contexts
Le lien qui existe entre la disponibilité et l’état des logements dans les réserves et les sans‐abri cachés parmi les membres de bandes des Premières nations vivant en milieu urbain.
Evelyn Peters, D. Ph.
Professeure et titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada, Faculté de géographie et d’urbanisme, Université de la Saskatchewan
Exploring the relationship of availability and conditions of reserve housing to hidden homeless among urban First Nation band members.
Dr. Evelyn Peters
Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Geography & Planning, University Of Saskatchewan
Historique de l’aménagement, planification et vision d’avenir. Le canton de Langley est l’une des municipalités membres de la Région du Metro Vancouver, situé à environ 35 km à l’est de Vancouver, en aval de la vallée du Fraser, dans le Lower Mainland de la Colombie‐Britannique.
Ramin Seifi, ing.
Directeur, Division du développement des collectivités,
Canton de Langley, Colombie‐Britannique
Development history, planning, and future focus. The Township of Langley is one of the member municipalities of the Metro Vancouver Region, located approximately 35 km east of Vancouver in the lower reaches of Fraser Valley in the Lower Mainland of BC.
Ramin Seifi, P. Eng.
Director, Community Development Division
Township of Langley,
British Columbia
The aim of the project is to take a multi‐faceted, holistic approach to recurring homelessness by removing lifestyle, housing, educational and employment barriers. Youth will be supported in learning to live independently and securing opportunities to make healthier lifestyles more sustainable.
Sheldon Pollett
Executive Director,
Choices for Youth
Offre des services de transition, de perfectionnement professionnel et d’entreprise aux jeunes de l’endroit. On y trouve un lieu dynamique et chaleureux où tous les jeunes participent à leur apprentissage et à la création de circonstances opportunes afin de construire leur avenir.
Steve Cordes
Directeur exécutif
Youth Opportunities Unlimited
YOU provides transition, career development, and enterprise services to local youth. They provide a caring and active place where all youth are engaged in learning and creating opportunities to build their future.
Steve Cordes
Executive Director,
Youth Opportunities Unlimited
Cette étude traite du rôle que joue le logement quand il s'agit de recruter et de retenir des étudiants autochtones dans les milieux collégial et universitaire de la région urbaine de Vancouver. Les défis et réussites en matière de logement avec lesquels les étudiants autochtones doivent composer à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur du campus ainsi qu'en résidence individuelle ou familiale sont documentés
Michelle Pidgeon, D. PH.
Professeure agrégée,
Faculté de l’éducation
Université Simon Fraser
This study examines the role of housing in recruiting and retaining Aboriginal students attending college and university in the urban area of Vancouver. The housing challenges and successes that Aboriginal students face on‐ and off‐campus and in single and family residences were documented.
Michelle Pidgeon, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
Une étude, commandée par RHDCC et réalisée par SPARC BC, met en lumière l’efficacité de nombreuses stratégies municipales pour lutter contre l’itinérance, particulièrement les primes à la densité, la fourniture de terrains pour les urgences, la transition, des logements de soutien ou sous le prix du marché et l’autorisation d’aménager des appartements accessoires.
Robyn Newton,
chercheur principal,
Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
A study, commissioned by HRSDC and conducted by SPARC BC, sheds light on the effectiveness of several municipal strategies to address homelessness, especially density bonusing, the provision of land for emergency, transition, supportive or below‐market housing and permitting the development of secondary suites.
Robyn Newton,
Senior Researcher,
Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
L’atlas pilote présente certaines façons de comprendre les questions de structure de l’itinérance au Canada en utilisant des représentations graphiques dynamiques.
Tracey Lauriault,
Chef de la recherche en matière de projet,
Université Carleton
dans les villes canadiennes
L'Outil de collecte de données municipales est une base de données coopérative en ligne qui permet aux municipalités qui participent au Système de rapports sur la qualité de vie (SRQDV) de compiler et de partager des données administratives municipales dans les secteurs de responsabilité des municipalités.
Michel Frojmovic,
Acacia Consulting and Research
Ce projet, réalisé pour le compte de la Société d’habitation du Québec (SHQ), a permis d’établir les liens entre les diverses sources de données afin de produire un profil statistique des résidents des logements sociaux de la Ville de Québec.
Quels seront les effets à long terme d'un ralentissement de la croissance démographique et d'une augmentation de l'âge moyen sur la croissance des ménages et le taux de propriétaires‐occupants? Pour aider à répondre à cette question, la SCHL a élaboré des projections démographiques à long terme de la croissance des ménages et du taux de propriétaires‐occupants au Canada.
How will slower population growth and a rising average age affect household growth and the overall rate of home ownership over the long‐term? To help answer these questions, CMHC has developed long‐term, demographics‐driven projections of household and ownership growth for Canada.
Richard Gabay,
Senior Researcher,
CMHC
Ce projet vis à examiner l’incidence du vieillissement de la population sur les marchés du logement canadiens et provinciaux.
Mario Fortion, professeur
Université de Sherbrooke
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Simpolo Tiles & Bathware
Tile ho,
toh Simpolo.
Since the first steps were taken in 1977, Simpolo Ceramics has carved its niche as a consistently growing organisation with unparalleled innovation and passion rooted in simplicity.
We endure gratification for every experience we offer, created to share something meaningful. It may not resonate with the majority, but that makes us a class apart. If only a handful were to understand the purpose of our existence, we would be proud to have found our believers. Rather, people with whom we can share our beliefs.
VISUALIZER
Design your space in your style with our very own Visualizer. Now, you can choose the tiles of your liking from our wide selection and see how they would look in a space. Select the tile from the multiple options and the visualiser will replace the surfaces in the image with the selected tiles. This way, instead of just your imagination, you can choose the tiles for your place by getting an actual picture of how they would look in a space. So, design your space the way you desire digitally and implement it in real life to get the best results!
You can also share this visualiser with others to help them design their space.
Committed to delighting customers with world-class ceramic products and services. Make Simpolo synonymous with the best quality and set new benchmarks of excellence for all stakeholders. Pursue best business practices with utmost integrity to make Simpolo an exciting organisation to work with, for vendors, channel partners, investors and employees alike.
Gain worldwide recognition in the field of ceramic building products through Research and Innovation and bring an enhanced lifestyle within reach for every household.
The KA Housing - Catalogue - Listing TurkeyListing Turkey
Welcome to KA Housing, a distinguished real estate development nestled in the heart of Eyüpsultan, one of Istanbul’s most promising districts.
Just 10 minutes from the bustling city center, Eyüpsultan offers a serene escape with the convenience of urban living. The direct metro line ensures seamless connectivity to all parts of Istanbul, making it an ideal location for residents who seek both tranquility and vibrancy.
KA Housing boasts unparalleled accessibility, with proximity to Istanbul Airport only 30 minutes away, facilitating easy international travel. Effortless city access is guaranteed by direct metro and transportation links to Istanbul’s cultural and commercial hubs. Quick access to key metro lines connects you to every corner of the city within minutes, making commuting and exploring the city hassle-free.
The development offers luxurious living spaces with a range of unit layouts from 1+1 to 4+1, designed with meticulous attention to detail. Each unit features balconies or terraces, providing stunning vistas of Istanbul and enhancing the living experience. High-quality materials and superior craftsmanship ensure durability and elegance, while sound-proof insulation and high ceilings (2.95 m) offer comfort and sophistication.
Residents of KA Housing enjoy exclusive on-site amenities, including a state-of-the-art gym, outdoor swimming pool, yoga area, and walking paths. Entertainment options abound with a private cinema, children’s playground, and a variety of dining options including a café and restaurant. Security and convenience are paramount with 24/7 security, a dedicated carpark garage, and an IP intercom system.
KA Housing represents a prime investment opportunity with limited availability in a high-demand area, ensuring enduring value and potential for lucrative returns. Homes in this development provide exceptional value without compromising on quality, offering affordable luxury for discerning buyers. The construction is of the highest quality, built to the latest seismic and disaster resistance standards, ensuring safety and resilience.
The community and surroundings of KA Housing are enriched by close proximity to prestigious universities such as Haliç University, Bilgi University, and Istanbul Ticaret University, making it an ideal location for students and academics. The development is adjacent to the Alibeyköy stream leading into the Halic waters, offering serene natural escapes amidst lush greenery. Residents can enjoy the cultural richness of the area, surrounded by historical and cultural landmarks that blend leisure, nature, and culture seamlessly.
https://listingturkey.com/property/the-ka-housing/
Elegant Evergreen Homes - Luxury Apartments Redefining Comfort in Yelahanka, ...JagadishKR1
Experience unmatched luxury at Elegant Evergreen Homes, offering exquisite 2, 3, and 4 BHK apartments in the serene locality of Yelahanka, Bangalore. These meticulously crafted homes blend modern design with timeless elegance, providing a harmonious living environment. Enjoy top-tier amenities and a prime location, making Elegant Evergreen Homes the ideal choice for discerning homeowners.
Omaxe Sports City Dwarka stands out as a premier residential and recreational destination, offering a blend of luxury and sports-centric living. Located in the thriving area of Dwarka, this project by Omaxe Limited is designed to cater to modern lifestyle needs while promoting a healthy, active living environment.
One FNG by Group 108 Sector 142 Noida Construction UpdateOne FNG
One FNG by Group 108 is launching a new commercial project in Sector 142 Noida. Office space and high street retail shops on the FNG and Noida Expressway. For more information visit the website https://www.onefng.com/
Referans Bahcesehir which is being constructed, in the center of the most regional destination as Bahçeşehir, shines out with its central location and unique landscape including social facilities such as a fitness center, sauna, sports facilities, children’s playground and recreational areas.
Not only drawing attention for immediate surroundings including commercial centers and private schools but also providing the easily accessible location with closeness to Tem Highway and connection roads, ongoing construction of 3rd Bridge Connection roads and Metro Projects
Bahcesehir is a rising value in the great city of Istanbul… Located at a new transportation junction in the northwest of the City… Located at such a spot that the access roads for the 3rd bridge and for the 3rd Airport will reach the region in 2016. The Marmaray and the Subway will extend all the way to Referans Bahcesehir respectively in 2018 and 2019.
465 flats and 34 stores are designed with an outstanding approach and arranged with a unique perspective offering the following options: 1 plus 1, 2 plus 1, 3 plus 1, 3.5 plus 1, 4 plus 1, and 4.5 plus 1. It is planned so as to safeguard you and your loved ones based upon a modern, technological safety approach. As you experience the joy and luxury here, you will be content and feet at ease.
It is worth seeing both inside and outside with heart-warming cafes, tasty restaurants and elegant stores… And it is ready to offer a vivacious social life with a warm and cozy space design.
A folding swimming pool and indoor swimming pools, playgrounds, Turkish bath, sauna… It has them all. Everything you need for your well-being and for having a pleasant time will be at your service. You simply need to align the rhythm of life with the rhythm of Referans Bahcesehir.
https://listingturkey.com/property/referans-bahcesehir/
Lixin Azarmehr, a Los Angeles-based real estate development trailblazer, co-founded JL Real Estate Development (JL RED) in 2015 and serves as its CEO. Her expertise has propelled the firm to specialize in luxury residential and mixed-use commercial projects, with a portfolio that features upscale retail spaces and sophisticated care facilities.
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The Atlas is guided by the theory and application of cybercartography. Cybercartography sees location as central to knowledge integration in the emerging information society and part of the growing domain of maps on the Internet. Cybercartography: Theory and Practice (ed. and contributor). Volume 4 in Modern Cartography Series, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, pp. 574.
The GCRC specializes in the creation of cybercartographic atlases. Its team includes cartographers, ontologists, audio visual experts, programmers, geomaticians, visualization specialists among many other experts. The GCRC is not a subject matter specialist on the topic of housing and homelessness. The GCRC applies its skills to enable specialist, researchers, public officials, policy makers, community groups, statisticians and scientists to translate, model and mobilize their knowledge into an atlas.
To increase understanding of the topic of the risks of homelessness, more specifically structural issues, by the general public and provide decisions makers with new ways of seeing the impact of policy interventions. Homelessness is a complex problem with considerable variation both across Canada and within individual urban areas. The Atlas presents the variability of a select number of indicators in ways in which people can better understand the issues.
The FCM QoLRS technical team collaboratively selected a variety of indicators associated with the risk of homelessness and track these across time: - households that spend more than 50% of their income on rent; - people living in substandard housing; - those on social housing waiting lists; - the poor - those who are living on low, insecure or feeble incomes, people on fixed incomes such as seniors or those receiving social assistance, - and some demographic groups such as lone parent families.
Cybercartographic atlases are “living atlases” and are designed in a modular fashion to facilitate the addition of new content. This modularity, combined with the transdisciplinary cybercartographic approach, enables participants to mobilize their knowledge from multiple perspectives and present these in an atlas format. Users do not require advanced technical skill and the cybercartographic approach is particularly well suited to the needs of policy makers, researchers, public and community based organizations. We have changed our programming toward a Java Script approach that will allow atlases to be accessible in multiple browsers (e.g. IE 8). Early software development was experimental. To view the current Atlas you require a HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION and a recent version of SAFARI, FIREFOX and/or Google's CHROME. It is based on the Nunaliit Framework. Due to the advanced, W3C (XHTML + SVG) standards compliant nature of the technology powering the atlas. IE did not meet those standard when we began developing in 2002.
Users arrives at the Atlas Introduction page. The text on the map links to thematic modules. The modules are also available in the text window on the right of the map. The text also provides a variety of administrative information related to the Atlas. Additional cities and themes could easily be added to this page as the Atlas grows. All the maps are interactive. A series of tabs at the bottom can be selected and these will change the map view. The scroll bar on the right moves up and down to enable the reading of the full text and the text within is hyperlinked to other related content. The map itself is also interactive as the cursor scrolls over municipal/neighbourhood/social housing data pop up in a window to provide more information. Also a region can be selected and will stay highlighted as the user navigates across topics in the tabs. This allows for the comparison across variables or time. The user can also zoom in and out to see the data at different scales. Other multimedia content can be added such as video, images, audio and these can also be accessed from the map.
The GraphoMap Module includes 3 FCM QoLRS risk of homelessness indicators, 11 data variables for 22 cities, at three time intervals. It was designed by Dr. Sebastien Caquard. It abstracts Canada’s geography into a 180º semi circle with QoLRS cities located relationally and distance wise from east to west. Circles proportionally represent the value of a particular variable in real numbers. For instance, the circles on the Vacancy Rate indicator represent the Total Number of Rented Dwellings for a particular QoLRS municipally and year. The Position of the Point on the Radial Line works as follows: the closer a point is to the centre of the semi circle, the higher the risk of homelessness for that particular variable. A video accompanies the GraphoMap to explain how it works just in case a user needs some pointers. Interactivity and a well-designed visualization can make accessible great complexity relatively easily when compared to data tables on multiple pages in a PDF report.
The location of the proportionally sized dots on the Lone Parent Families Spending variable represents the Percent of Lone-Parent Family Households spending 50% or more of Household Income Spent on Rent for a given year as a proportion of the total number of Lone-Parent Family Renters that same year. The higher the proportion of these Lone Parent Households being over extended the higher the risk of homelessness for that year.
This series of maps represents the spatial interpolation of the percentage of both the Low Income Cut Off (LICO) and the households spending more than 30% in rent (30% plus). This interpolation is based on data provided at the EA scale (1991) and DA scale (2001 and 2006). How to read this map: the darker areas represent the higher percentages, either in terms of LICO or 30% plus. For instance we can see an important increase of the percentage of households spending more than 30% in rent (30% plus) between 1996 and 2001. The City of Calgary Module tells the story of the economic risk of becoming homeless. The variables shown are Low Income (LICO) and also those who spend 30% + of their income on rent. The city wanted to see if these economic risk data could be rendered in such a way as to demonstrate variability within City of Calgary neighbourhoods. Often it is perceived that neighbourhoods show contiguous population groupings while the reality is that neighbourhoods depending on their historical evolution and where they are located vary.
This is a detailed zoomed in view with the same locale selected. This allows the user to navigate indicators and time for the same location.
The CMM Atlas Module tells the story of social housing and housing affordability for lower-income renting populations. The demand for and the supply side of social, affordable and different types of housing providers and programs are part of this module. Affordability remains an issue for many in the CMM while the supply does not meet the demand. This module shows the distribution of these data in both real numbers and proportionally for all 82 CMM municipalities. The CMM contributed these data to the project and crafted the text to accompany the interactive maps. Points display absolute values (numbers) Colours display percentages for the same criteria.
The City of Toronto Atlas Module tells the story of its aging social housing stock. The City is faced with the daunting and expensive task of managing a large inventory of social housing that is aging, in need of repair and refurbishing to meet current energy efficiency and heating standards. It also has a large social housing waiting list, indicating that it cannot fully meet the current demand. The City contributed their Toronto Community Housing data. This dataset includes the location, name, number of rent geared to income (RGI) units and the year of construction for all city managed social housing. The data were aggregated by city neighbourhood and by decade. On this map the dark green circles represent the decade selected and the lighter green represent the construction of social housing prior to that. The story quickly becomes obvious as the construction boom for social housing appears in the 60s and 70s, which much stock built earlier, and drops in the 90s and tapers to only one new construction in 2003. We therefore get both an aging story and imagine the repair issues of a stock built according to old standards and generally very cheaply. The images also reveal some of the political changes in the priorities for social housing in the City of Toronto.
This was the first iteration which included the location of social housing by building and the decade of construction. This was considered to be useful but less informative than the former (what we have just seen) and also very slow to load on the Internet. Both versions are made available to users while the aggregated by neighbourhood (Green Dots) is the primary module.
The Canada Module was created to assess data variability of Census Subdivisions (CSDs) in Canada across time. CSDs are the Statistics Canada geographic units that represent the administrative boundaries of cities and municipalities. The points on the map represent the current 24 QoLRS cities. Researchers also wanted to develop a rate of change map series to show change in terms of units available for sale and for rent by CSD. MADGIC Data Liberation Initiative Census data were used to create these maps. We had another theme in mind but we were informed by Statistics Canada that one cross tabulation would cost upwards of $60 000. We dutifully declined and experimented. We believe the Rate of Change methodology we developed is useful, albeit difficult to understand by general users. Also CSD geographies have radically changed across time due to the wave of amalgamations across the country and with the advent of Nunavut. We have concluded that the results of this experiment are inaccurate. We would have liked to have been able to acquire data adjusted to 2001 boundaries. However, those are terribly expensive and are not part of the Data Liberation Initiative. Finally, because we are not housing experts, and we do not have experts positioned locally across the country, we could not explain the variations we were seeing in the maps. We kept this map to tell a cautionary tale for other researchers and to discuss data access in Canada. “One may need to mortgage the house to afford studying homelessness in Canada”.
HRSDC Proposal to build upon the pilot and create an atlas of homelessness in Canada. Includes FCM, Cities, Province of Ontario and HIFIS. Preparing a SSHRC CURA Letter of Intent proposing to work with academic & community based researchers and Homelessness Coalitions. The team includes researchers from geography, cartography, health, social policy, psychology and comparative criminology. It also represents many cities and regions in Canada. This aim is to mobilize existing research and render those into the Atlas, to build local mapping capacity and a community based geodata infrastructure.