Data Responsive Urbanism & Development

The legacies of spatial policies as broad as Red Lining, and as recent as new and upheld zoning initiatives have revealed a varied set of performative results in the form of data that can be measured against their intended prerogatives. The data responsive initiative uses this data as an intelligent feedback mechanism in the evaluation of urban and development dynamics such as settlement patterns, displacement, gentrification and resilience. Our goal is formulating new directional insights that seek to achieve greater spatial equity.

Our Projects

Projects
Unlocking Air: Reparative Design Strategies
Shared Spatial Governance, Data Responsive Development, Affordable Housing Supply
Unlocking Air: Reparative Design Strategies
Shared Spatial Governance, Data Responsive Development, Affordable Housing Supply

Currently, most air rights transfers are used to create a distinctly financial style of building, the super-tall. This project proposes a smaller scale approach, unlocking air rights above existing residential development, adding 2-4 stories to create a higher, yet still contextually relevant, density.

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Shared Spatial Governance, Data Responsive Development, Affordable Housing Supply
Ako Adjei Park
Affordable Housing Supply, Data Responsive Development
Ako Adjei Park
Affordable Housing Supply, Data Responsive Development

Max Bond Jr.’s own years of professional practice dedicated to the building of the then young Ghanian country in the 1960s served as a fruitful and inspiring model for this collaboration. The three organizations responsible for this work established an agreement to work collaboratively on the research and creation of a comprehensive and sustainable development strategy for Accra.

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Affordable Housing Supply, Data Responsive Development
Equitable Development Index
Data Responsive Development, Shared Spatial Governance
Equitable Development Index
Data Responsive Development, Shared Spatial Governance

The lasting effects of gentrification, rezoning, historic red-lining and economic and health disparities have rendered a built landscape — and its attending processes — fraught to navigate.

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Data Responsive Development, Shared Spatial Governance