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Anapolsky, Sebastian

Global Practice Social, Urban, Rural & Resilience
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Anapolsky, Sebastian
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Urban development, Transport
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U.Michigan
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Global Practice Social, Urban, Rural & Resilience
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Last updated:January 31, 2023
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Sebastian Anapolsky is an Urban Development Consultant with experience working on urban development and transport projects. He has worked for the National Government in Argentina in the management of urban and mobility studies and urban infrastructure projects. He conducts advisory, technical assistance, and analytical work for cities and international organizations. His work focuses on urban infrastructure policy, transit oriented development, intelligent transport systems, and household surveys, data analysis, and geographical information systems. He has working experience for cities in Latin America, Asia, and the United States. Sebastian received a dual master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning and Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a BA in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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    Detecting Urban Clues for Road Safety: Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2021-11-30) Antos, Sarah Elizabeth; Triveno Chan Jan, Luis Miguel; Ghesquiere, Francis; Czapski, Radoslaw; Syed Shafat Ali, Bushra; Anapolsky, Sebastian; Gosling-Goldsmith, Jessica; Wang, Charles
    Transportation services and infrastructure connect people, businesses, and places. They allow citizens to access opportunities, such as jobs, education, health services, recreation, and enable the movement and distribution of goods. As a result, transport services and infrastructure are key to the economic development of cities and regions. The purpose of this guidance note is to provide concrete guidance on how big data and machine learning (ML) can be leveraged in road safety analysis. The document presents opportunities to use these new technologies to improve current methods for data collection and analysis for various road safety assessments. This guidance note provides a practical guide for using new data sources and analytical methods for road safety analysis in different types of projects that may impact road infrastructure or risk-related factors. This document consists of three parts. Part 1 provides an overview of existing approaches and tools for road safety assessment and identifies opportunities to improve these using new technologies such as big data and ML. Part 2 provides an overview of these new technologies and concrete guidance on how they can be integrated into transport projects for road safety analysis. Part 3 presents case studies on two regions of interest – Bogotá, Colombia and Padang, Indonesia to demonstrate how ML can be implemented to evaluate road safety. The document concludes with recommendations for using big data and ML in road safety assessments in the future.
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    Leveraging the Potential of Argentine Cities: A Framework for Policy Action
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2016-10-18) Muzzini, Elisa; Eraso Puig, Beatriz; Anapolsky, Sebastian; Lonnberg, Tara; Mora, Viviana
    Argentina’s path to economic prosperity is through efficient, sustainable and economically thriving cities. Not only are cities a spatial concentration of people, but also they generate agglomeration economies by concentrating ideas, talent, and knowledge. Argentina is one of the most urbanized countries in Latin America, with 90 percent of Argentine people currently living in cities. Argentina’s cities are geographically and economically diverse, and its largest urban area – Metropolitan Buenos Aires – is one of Latin America’s urban giants. Argentine cities need to address three main challenges to leverage their economic potential. Argentina’s current patterns of urban development are characterized by (a) high primacy and unbalanced regional development, (b) limited global economic footprint of urban economies, with employment concentrated in nontradable and resource intensive sectors, and (c) unplanned low-density urban expansion. Argentine cities thus face the challenges of moving toward a more balanced regional development, transitioning from local to global cities, and from urban sprawl to articulated densities to take full advantage of the benefits of agglomeration economies. To address these challenges, Argentina needs the leadership of the federal government; the coordinating power of provinces; and the capacity of empowered, financially sound municipalities. Argentine cities also need system-wide policy reforms in areas such as territorial planning, municipal finance, housing, urban transport, and local economic development. Leveraging the Potential of Argentine Cities: A Framework for Policy Action aims to deepen our empirical understanding of the interplay between urbanization and agglomeration economies in Argentina by asking the following: (a) What are the main trends and spatial patterns of Argentina’s urbanization that underlie agglomeration economies?, (b) Are urban policies leveraging or undermining the benefits of agglomeration economies?, and (c) Are Argentine cities fully reaping the benefits of agglomeration economies to deliver improvements in prosperity and livability? By addressing such questions and exploring their implications for action, this study provides a conceptual framework, empirical data, and strategic directions for leveraging the potential of Argentine cities.
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    Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management in India : A Sourcebook for Policy Makers and Practitioners
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2008) Asnani, P. U.; Zhu, Da; Zurbrügg, Chris; Mani, Shyamala; Anapolsky, Sebastian
    Human activities create waste, and the ways that waste is handled, stored, collected, and disposed of can pose risks to the environment and to public health. Solid waste management (SWM) includes all activities that seek to minimize health, environmental, and aesthetic impacts of solid waste. In urban areas, especially in the rapidly urbanizing cities of the developing world, problems and issues of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) are of immediate importance. This book addresses the problem by focusing on India. A country such as India, with its high economic growth and rapid urbanization, requires immediate solutions to the problems related to mismanagement of urban waste. City managers are actively trying to understand the problem and are seeking effective ways of intervening. They realize that such interventions are essential to improving the quality of their cities and to reducing adverse health and environmental impacts. For cities to be sustainable and to continue their economic development, they must be clean and healthy. They need to improve their SWM systems by adopting good collection coverage, appropriate transfer methods, and healthy disposal practices.