Assessing the Quality of Life of Children in New York
Link to the (Interactive!) Project
Fall 2021
Intro to Urban Data Informatics
Columbia GSAPP
Link to the (Interactive!) Project
Fall 2021
Intro to Urban Data Informatics
Columbia GSAPP
Measuring children’s interactions with the built environment, critical infrastructure, and public amenities —as well as the socio-economic factors that pervade the diversity of lived experiences of these interactions—are crucial to understanding the urban ecosystem.
However, precedent “quality of life” indices and prior efforts to quantify and visualize the spatial differences of such measures rarely prioritize parameters that are most pertinent to children in a given study area.
Our findings from the existing literature and framework of Unicef’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative, Arup’s Cities Alive: Designing for Urban Childhoods Report and ONE NYC 2050’s Well-being indicators highlighted few contextual gaps that we seek to address in answering our research question:
However, precedent “quality of life” indices and prior efforts to quantify and visualize the spatial differences of such measures rarely prioritize parameters that are most pertinent to children in a given study area.
Our findings from the existing literature and framework of Unicef’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative, Arup’s Cities Alive: Designing for Urban Childhoods Report and ONE NYC 2050’s Well-being indicators highlighted few contextual gaps that we seek to address in answering our research question:
What are Quality of Life considerations that need to be addressed for Children in New York City across all five boroughs?
How do we make the current Child Friendly QoL frameworks more contextual in assessing New York City?
How do we make the current Child Friendly QoL frameworks more contextual in assessing New York City?
Project by Kirthi Balakrishnan, Shreya Arora, Lizzie Lee & Christian Budow
Course by Professor Boyeong Hong