{"id":338,"date":"2016-10-13T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/?p=338"},"modified":"2016-10-13T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:00:42","slug":"blog-entry-1-air-quality-gosforth-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2016\/10\/13\/blog-entry-1-air-quality-gosforth-high-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Entry 1: Air Quality Gosforth High street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Digital Civics: Air Quality Blog Entry 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Project goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"FullSizeRenderA\u00a0Newcastle university urban planning focused bottom up campaign initiative to\u00a0increase user and community awareness of\u00a0air quality control centered on Gosforth high street. Working with the users on easy and effective forms of interpreting the data supplied by the air quality monitors situated along the high street, making the data accessible to everybody with the goal of increasing community awareness and support for self-managed air quality control through community projects.<\/p>\n

Stakeholders & users:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this project, the main users are students that in both private and church schools, commuters from the North, different business on the street and residents. They are quite important as variety role are played by them. For example, students and the old residents should be taken good care but the poor air quality make them expose under the risk of illness. Commuters come here by private or bus and bring business to this street and shop owners really need them to live. However, they can make traffic congestion as to many cars and buses which is also the main cause of air pollution. As residents, they create a group called SPACE on Facebook, Twitter and website. What they have done is they have posted the problem of the air pollution and explain this to the public. People can say their needs and make suggestions in this group.<\/p>\n

At first the council and population wants less traffic on this road because of the
\nair pollution but the thing is they wants more traffic for the health of businesses. \"FullSizeRenderBesides, there are a lot of data available on a few websites but they are unusable. We think because it\u2019s difficult to understand the data if you are not an expert. For example, for the level of the pollution in air there are only numbers with abbreviations of products. Therefore, to have a better use of data, they need to be more imagery with colours and map for the localisation.<\/p>\n

Key Questions for the Sprint<\/strong><\/p>\n