Million Neighborhoods Map
A decade of experience with bottom up community surveys and mapping by SDI communities, and improving remote sensing data allowed us to develop new quantitative criteria for the likely identification of informal settlements, specifically the lack of infrastructure access to buildings.
The combination of brand new exhaustive building datesets produced by technology (remote sensing + AI delineation) facilitated the creation of draft complete maps, and the identification of informal settlements at the level of street blocks. In turn, we have demonstrated that these physical features correlate strongly with measures of human development in demographic and health surveys.
The Million Neighborhood Map provides us with a draft complete map and a starter geospatial infrastructure that will be augmented and quality controlled for the first stage of TransformYourCity.