Thrive Zone Amager
In November 2020, the 1-year project Thrive Zone Amager, was initated by the project team encompassing Urban Digital, Studio Profondo, Gehl, Backscatter and Miljøpunkt Amager. The project received finance from the ICLEI Action Fund – a granting scheme administrated by ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability in collaboration with Google.org. The… Thrive Zone Amager builds onto a previous collaboration between Copenhagen Solutions Lab, the City of Copenhagen and Google, wherein all streets of Copenhagen were measured for air pollution – the so-called Google Air-View project. The Thrive Zone Amager project team has combined data collected by local citizens carrying sensors with… Instagram From December 2020 to February 2021 data from instagram posts from all locations in the project areas have been analaysed using co-hashtag network analysis (i.e. hashtags that are often used in the same posts or ‘cluster together’) and sentiment analysis of post captions. Instagram posts is a metric… Maptionaire Maptionaire is an online survey platform using maps and images as an engaging way to have people express opinions and identify their uses of public spaces in their neighbourhood as well as qualities that are important to them. Analysis of data from maptionaire allows for key public spaces… During the project period, we have held various pop-up events with the aim of meeting citizens where they naturally move in the cityscape. In April a workshop was held with municipal experts on traffic, air pollution and health. Here, the project’s outline and basic issues were discussed across administrations with… Data insights helped inform the design of pilots by identifying places where air pollution levels were high and where there were concentrations of people spending long periods of time, not just moving by. In Islands Brygge we saw high concentrations of air pollution along Artillerivej coupled with many daycare institutions… Over the course of the implementation period, Danish Technological Institute has conducted air quaility measurements in the areas of the three pilots. Sensors were installed outside the pilots to measure the quality of the air in the close proximity and inside the pilots. Both data sets were then compared to… In conclusion of the Thrive Zone Amager project, the project team hosted a public presentation called ‘Inspiration meeting on city life and air pollution’ in November 2021, where citizens, local stakeholders and press and the City of Copenhagen were invited, and the results of the project were presented. Presentations can… Would you like to learn more about the Thrive Zone Amager project? Click on the available resources below: Reports Learn more about the design process, social benefits of the pilots, choice of plants as well as other recommendations to get you started with designing your own urban space in the…
Initiation of Thrive Zone Amager
Citizen Science
SoMe and Google Maps API data
Maptionaire & Public Life Survey
Involvement of citizens and municipal experts
Designs
Implementation
End of project
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