M9. COLOURING LEBANON - colouring-cities/manual GitHub Wiki

colouring beirut

Colouring Beirut was the first platform to reproduce Colouring London code. The site is temporarily inactivate owing to wider issues affecting Lebanon as a whole. Relaunch and expansion is planned for 2023.

Academic institution/department or academic consortium

The American University of Beirut. Urban Lab

Host link

https://www.aub.edu.lb/

National research institution verification link

To be completed

City/Cities selected for initial testing

Beirut

Platform link

Awaiting relaunch post discussion at the Women in Data Science Conference, AUB, Beirut April 2023

Social media links

To be completed

Relevant articles, publications and events links

Please also add publications/events to the group page here

Krayem, Alaa, Aram Yeretzian, Ghaleb Faour, and Sara Najem. ‘Machine Learning for Buildings’ Characterization and Power-Law Recovery of Urban Metrics.’ PLOS ONE 16, no. 1 (January 28, 2021): e0246096.

CCRP membership start date

Involvement in Colouring London from 2019

Anticipated launch date

  • Demonstration model: Launched 2019 but currently paused owing to resource shortages in Beirut
  • National rollout: Not known

Academic Team

(Please also record all significant contributions from Colouring Cities alumni with from/to dates so all team members are credited)

  • Principal Investigator: Dr Sara Najem

Multidisciplinary expertise

Urban analytics, machine learning, urban infrastructure risk and resilience analysis, mathematics of cities, physics

Key Collaborators

National Center for Remote Sensing (CNRS) of the Conseil National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-Lebanon)

Additional partners, advisors and consultees

To be completed

Funding

Grant 1: Date (from/to)

  • Amount:
  • Funder: American University of Beirut
  • Purpose:

Open building footprint source

Description of footprint source, any restrictions, plans for updating, level of accuracy, issues arising etc To be completed

Primary research interest/s in reproduction of platform code

To be completed

Secondary research interest/s for reproduction of platform code

To be completed

What are the most useful aspects of the Colouring Cities Research Programme for you?

To be completed

What are the greatest challenges you anticipate during platform set up e.g. open footprint access, engineering support funding etc?

To be completed

What could we add/do that would be of use? (e.g add features, new data categories, joint papers, joint funding applications etc.

To be completed

Key Advisors and consultees

To be completed

Colouring Lebanon/Beirut citations, articles etc.

To be completed

Plan of action 2022

To be completed

Updates

To be completed

Please add all publicity/publication links here