Monitoring and Understanding Urban Transformation: A Mixed Method Approach

Cities must address many challenges including air quality, climate change and the health wellbeing of communities. Public authorities developers increasingly look to improve these through implementation interventions innovations, such as low traffic neighbourhoods, deep housing retrofits green infrastructure. Monitoring impacts is essential determine success projects build evidence for broader urban transformation. In this paper we present a mixed-method cross-disciplinary approach that brings together cutting edge atmospheric data science, measurements activity in public spaces novel methods assess wellbeing-promoting behaviours. The Manchester Urban Observatory focuses on living areas have high density inter-related systems, which require observation, understanding intervention at multiple levels. This be completed line with planning goals well clear succinct solution allows robust scientific conclusions made viewed real time. Delivery monitoring strategy not trivial time, resource expertise heavy. discusses employed by monitor effectiveness off implemented within cities effective communication strategies local