Recent advances in geospatial analysis and the availability of digital maps have revealed the importance of urban form and built infrastructure as fundamental to understanding the vulnerabilities and vitality of global and local cities.

Bonny P McClain is a geospatial analyst, public speaker, author and self described human geographer and social anthropologist exploring geographic properties that capture complex interactions, dynamic shifts in ecosystem balance and how activities influence eco-geomorphic conceptual frameworks across a wide variety of environments including healthcare, the built infrastructure and economic theory.

Bonny is a sought after keynote and event speaker focused on infrastructure with the understanding that we don’t float above buildings, bridges, and highways — we walk, drive, and navigate through and on them. Using the city as an operational unit she uses open source solutions to tell stories about urban form and morphometrics and what we can learn from the social demographic layers located within and the vulnerabilities encountered with climate risk and change.

"I believe the stories are in those spaces and I use informal settlements (emergent growth) like favelas, formal settlements (cities built by systemic formal intention) to identify the common phenotype."

Bonny has recently published Python for Geospatial Data Analysis (O'Reilly) and Geospatial Analysis with SQL (Packt) and is developing the first draft of Geospatial Data Science & the Art of Storytelling with Locate Press.