Bridging the Amenity Gap: How Emerging Data Can Help Detect Amenity Bypass

With rapidly increasing populations, new cities are emerging, and older cities are expanding to keep up with the growing needs of residents. Given the complex and dynamic nature of cities, it has become a challenge for urban planners to identify and equitably support the needs of different communities without the proper tools and adequate data. In recent years, the development of large-scale computing power and the increasing diversity of sensing technologies have provided unconventional sources of information that urban planners can tap into to gain a broader understanding of the urban service coverage and identify existing gaps.