Marc-Edouard is a postdoctoral research fellow at MIT Senseable City Lab using Urban Sociology and Spatial Data Science to study urban mobility.His work focuses on the urban planning concept of Urban Proximities and their potential and limits as a solution for the sustainable transition of cities. As a Quantitative Sociologist and Civil Engineer, he utilizes methods of modeling, cartography, and statistical pattern recognition, along with qualitative approaches such as interviews and observations.
The objective of his work is to examine the implementation, adoption, and aspirations of urban proximities in cities; and to comprehend the reciprocal adjustment between individual socio-spatial practices and proximity planning policies.
The case study of Amsterdam immerses him in a dense urban fabric where urban proximity intersects with urban saturations, social acceleration, neighborhood gentrification, globalization, mass consumption, and more.
He also devotes time to valorizing urban sciences through various channels to reach a wider audience, including open sciences and coding libraries, press articles, and other writings such as a manifesto and a lexicography of the urban transition.
This work is made possible thanks to the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Bio
Marc-Edouard Schultheiss is a Transportation Engineer who specializes broadly in City Science. His research focuses on how people move within cities, and how they organize their activities and travels over time and space. He uses a variety of raw materials, including multi-day GPS data, survey data, and Open Data (OSM, GTFS), and employs tools such as maps, graphs, statistics, and models to analyze this information. Marc-Edouard holds a Ph.D. in Urban Sociology.
“At Senseable Amsterdam Lab I work closely with decision-makers and multi-disciplinary researchers to study the 15min city”