Indicators of Urban Attractiveness

More interesting work in the future of geographic quantification: Fabien Girardin

compared the attractiveness of the main points of interests in New York from the relative strength based on the density of digital footprints; or the evolution of the centrality of the waterfront among the network of points of interest generated by the flows of visitors in the Lower Manhattan area. The mapping of this new type of digital footprint analysis shows the impact of an event to open-up and drive people to new parts of a city over time.

(Via Quantifying the Evolution of the Attractiveness of the NYC Waterfront.)