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
• Urban planning
• Mapping tools

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

[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
• Procurement

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
• Urban planning
• Smart Cities and sensors

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
• Urban planning
• 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

• Urban planning
• Service alerts
• Communicating with the people

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

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

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

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
• Urban planning
• Smart Cities and sensors

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

• Urban planning
• Satellites
• Peer-reviewed research

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Narrative tech

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

• public space

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Communicating with the people

A digital twin solution for buildings and urban planning that works with Autodesk

• Urban planning
• Digital twins

ClearRoad provides cloud-based solutions to keep roads well-maintained and well-managed Schedule a demo

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Mapping tools

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• city
• United Nations
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• books
• city

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Books

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

• Climate action
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Reports
• Urban planning

mySidewalk gives you the tools and insights you need to build a better world.

• local

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Hundreds of public agencies around the world use Strava Metro to evaluate and improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Strava

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Civic data
• Urban planning

The ride-hailing company is working with DC to share data—and the much coveted curb.

• Uber

• Data science for social good
• Urban planning

Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Urban planning

Design the sustainable cities of tomorrow with the first end-to-end urban planning software. Discover the platform built for planners, by planners.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Digital twin - Virtual Singapore is a 3D digital replica of Singapore built on topographical as well as real-time, dynamic data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Supporting the transformation of cities towards a more sustainable mobility through data analysis and digital communication.

• mobility

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Caminos de la Villa es una plataforma de acción ciudadana que permite acceder de manera sencilla a la información vinculada con los procesos de urbanización en las villas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y ver de qué manera se están llevando adelante. ¡Sumate!

• Engagement tech
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Urban planning