INTERVIEW
Role of Demography and Statistics in City Planning Good city planning needs to be backed with very detailed economic, social, demographic, and environmental data to support all of the important decisions that need to be taken, says, Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division and the UN-GGIM Global Secretariat, in an interview with Geospatial World. What is the Role of Statistics in Urban Planning? Statistics is absolutely critical in urban planning because we are surrounded by numbers. And at the local level, they offer the best opportunity of integrating different statistical information. Most of the statistical information is collected at the local level because surveys and censuses are done at the local
level, which is why it is easiest to see and understand the need for the integration of information.
What roadmap should cities adopt for a precise database actionable approach? At the city level, you have the same challenges that are there at the national level. There’s a need to bring different players together
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