Canada's cities and smaller communities are facing a looming crisis in deferred maintenance and construction of critical infrastructure, both physical and social.

• Civic data
• Governance of AI
• Urban planning

We are an independent, nonprofit research startup devoted to the analysis and design of public policies that help make midsize cities work better for people.

• Research and policy centers
• Urban planning
• Policy

Planning and politics collide in the struggle to redesign Brooklyn’s notoriously dangerous McGuinness Blvd.

• Learn about civic tech
• Urban planning
• Shows and films

When a global developer purchases Industry City - a massive industrial complex on the waterfront - and begins to transform it into an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself.

• Learn about civic tech
• Urban planning
• Innovation teams and labs

This interactive map is designed to provide evidence on where housing is most needed.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

An interactive 3D model of everything from buildings and parks to underground infrastructure, used by city officials, researchers, and residents to visualise changes and assess their impact before implementation.

• Urban planning
• Digital twins (of places)

Like a city-building game—but real life. Open Space Sandbox turns play into planning data

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling

Placemaking Europe is a European network that connects practitioners, academics, community leaders, market players and policy makers across the field of placemaking.

• Urban planning

Participants worked in mixed-age groups, using UrbanistAI to redesign public spaces based on photographs they had taken themselves.

• workshops

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Urban planning

Blitz helps you automate plan reviews to expedite building permits and approvals for homes, offices and commercial buildings across the USA with our AI-powered pre-check and plan review software.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Urban planning

Using AI to unlock historic planning data

• Gemini
• OpenStreetMap

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

PlanX is a content management system for creating digital planning services. It allows local planning authorities to collaboratively build and maintain data-driven planning services.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Das erste medienbruchfreie digitale System zur Bürgerbeteiligung online und vor Ort. DIPAS entdecken DIPAS Repository

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Urban in Mind is a trusted urban planning consultant serving the Greater Toronto Area.

• Urban planning
• Participation consultants

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Urban planning

To solve these challenges, the Streets Cabinet and Innovation and Technology Cabinet are building a digital map of Boston’s complex curb network and regulations.

• city

• Govtech
• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors

Pedestrian-first traffic management solutions

• streetscape
• Vision Zero

• Govtech
• Urban planning

A new AI tool aims to modernise council planning by replacing outdated paper systems with high-quality digital data, enabling faster, smarter decisions to support the government’s goal of building 1.5 million homes.

• housing
• land

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Urban planning

The ultimate platform for the real estate sector

• land
• commercial

• Urban planning

A community of forward-thinking Local Planning Authorities working together to shape a more efficient, data-driven planning system.

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Digital transformation

an open digital twin for the City of Bradford

• Urban planning
• Digital twins (of places)

Local plan policy tool

• land
• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning

The Genie AI team has created an easy step-by-step guide which takes you through every aspect of drafting your Section 106 Agreement.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning

Requiring open digitalisation and publication of planning data in the UK

• local

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Urban planning

In this paper, we examine how AI could help reimagine local government.

• reports
• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Official government portal for open planning and housing data

• housing

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Open government data

a groundbreaking AI-based decision support platform, which is transforming decision-making processes for planning proposals on sensitive land.

• land

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Urban planning

Come and join the Open Plans community on Thursday, May 1st for a festive celebration of the people behind our city’s defining public spaces.

• place-based
• city

• Urban planning
• Awards and prizes

Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.

• housing
• city
• social isolation

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Urban planning

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

• city
• apps
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

GAMA is an easy-to-use open source modeling and simulation environment for creating spatially explicit agent-based simulations.

• mobility

• Mapping
• Mapping tools
• Urban planning

We strive to support the development of more equitable and inclusive places through our belief in open, collaborative and data informed urbanism.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Urban planning

The project will establish a workshop to bring community-centered planning to the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AV)

• workshops
• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Urban planning
• Public Interest Tech

Georeferenced Guassian Splatting for drones to reproduce thin and tricky structures with clarity.

• Mapping tools
• Urban planning
• Drones

The temporal and spatial intersection of information and telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies, and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial configurations and public policies. Specifically, the post-crisis emergence of innovative workplaces to accommodate these changes, is creating socioeconomic and spatial features that are only recently beginning to be explored in the scholarly literature. According to this scenario, this edited book offers a variety of avenues for exploring the relationships between contemporary production activities and new workplaces in several urban contexts. In particular, it focuses on the consequences of these relationships in terms of regeneration of the urban fabric, as well as on their implication in terms of urban policies. This book represents early observation of the fast-growing phenomenon of new productive activities and workplaces against the background of the gig economy and sharing economy paradigms. Central to this discussion is the investigation of the connection between digital technologies, new works and workplaces, and urban change processes and projects, by providing an additional contribution to new urban agendas for contemporary cities. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Urban Technology.

• books
• city

• Urban planning

[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized

• mobility
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Academia

In plain language, tell Sidekick what you want to know and get answers straight from the mySidewalk data library.

• place-based

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning

A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Urban planning

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• city
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Civic data APIs

UK PlanIt is a national aggregator for current and historical planning information.

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Find out for free what is being built and knocked down in your area and receive email alerts when something new is planned.

• place-based

• Communicating with the people
• Urban planning
• Service alerts

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• city

• Urban planning

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

• local
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

A web solution designed for governments that provides the digital twin of the city, and delivers a real-time view of every street, plus insightful analytics to support decision-making and increase the efficiency of the city operations.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Dashboards

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• city
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• city
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Urban planning
• Design
• Manifestos

A transportation operating system for orchestrating, governing, and powering modern mobility.

• streetscape
• mobility

• Govtech
• Urban planning

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Peer-reviewed research
• Urban planning
• Satellites