1、Data for the City of Tomorrow:Developing the Capabilities and Capacity to Guide Better Urban FuturesI N S I G H T R E P O R TJ U N E 2 0 2 3In collaboration with Connected Places Catapult and The Business of CitiesGlobal Future Council on Cities of TomorrowContentsImages:Getty Images,Unsplash 2023 W

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4、f its Members,Partners or other stakeholders.ForewordExecutive summary1 Introduction 2 City data:The why,where and who 3 What cities should do4 Next stepsContributorsEndnotes3571018323435Data for the City of Tomorrow:Developing the Capabilities and Capacity to Guide Better Urban Futures2ForewordThe

5、year 2024 will mark the 170th anniversary of a breakthrough moment in urban data:the 1854 cholera outbreak in London.As citizens watched their neighbours fall sick,the terror of illness was fuelled by the mystery of its spread.Prevailing speculations about transmission ranged from a type of bad air,

6、or“miasma”,to divine retribution,and people invented treatments and preventative measures that were no less imaginative.The physician John Snow,however,approached the question systematically,beginning with what could be empirically charted:the spread of illness across urban space.Using cartography a