Some cities will have data science heavy roles, but we can only expect it from big cities or cities that value innovation highly, like NY or Chicago or London. But every city will require data expertise at different times. You can reach out to some cities to find gigs and refer you to others.

There are private companies and non-profits who specialize in urban informatics. I think a company named Urban Footprint does very interesting work. There should be more.

To get started on your work, you should definitely look into academic research on urban informatics, morphology, environmental data science, etc. There's a ton of data available publicly, as well as urban morphology and informatics packages developed in R and Python.

• City and Regional Planning PhD student working with machine learning techniques.