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Teaching Data Justice: Algorithmic Bias and Critical Spatial Analysis in Urban Planning Education

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Ahead of Print.
As urban planners increasingly use technological advances to generate and analyze new data, we must take care to overcome biases embedded in them. We survey American planning programs and find that very few spatial analysis syllabi explicitly raise this issue or include readings or exercises to train students about the limitations and opportunities for critically handling new data streams. We conclude with suggestions for curricular strategies to help fill this pedagogical gap by incorporating (1) groundtruthing and fieldwork exercises; (2) exercises of comparative urban contexts and spatial patterns; and (3) digital participation and public discourse.

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 10/01/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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