Insights is a suite of analytical tools geared towards advancing the understanding of climate hazard impacts and exploring mitigation and adaptation solutions.

Pose specific questions such as, how does tree canopy cover relate to heat distribution?

Decision

Support Tools

Combine multiple datasets with indexing tools that pinpoint opportunities for climate mitigation.

Communicate with effective maps and generate compelling renderings to reimagine urban  places.

Explore the impact of policy change and physical interventions through computational analysis.

By centering environmental and social equity, Growing Shade draws on actual neighborhood scale data, and provides a first step to selecting neighborhoods that match specific environmental and social criteria.

To capture heat and air quality data, 80 volunteers mounted two types of sensors on their vehicle windows, which measured the amount of particulate matter of a certain size (PM2.5) as the car drove along.