more about the project

Urban planning is a challenging task, especially for extensive infrastructure and building projects in mixed-use areas where different stakeholders, needs, and interests collide. In order to resolve such tasks, urban planners all around the world are establishing the third dimension in planning processes for visualizations and data analysis. Collecting 3D datasets has become a common task for cities but sometimes the data is not presented or available in a way that urban planners can actually use it for decision making.

By prototyping c-through – an interactive 3D web application based on the ArcGIS JavaScript API – we are aiming to support decision making in urban planning by providing tools that help explore and analyze the implications of usage distribution on a unit scale – that is e.g., on the level of apartments, stores or offices, commonly referred to as “spaces”.