Category: evidence-based design and planning
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Urban Calculator in education
Urban Calculator plays a crucial role in the education of students pursuing Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the field of urban design and planning. Urban design studios may choose this tool when they lack the time or resources for extensive GIS training. Despite these limitations, they aim to provide students with the fundamental principles of…
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Urban Calculator and conventional spatial analysis tools.
Spatial analysis is often used in urban projects, but most often it focuses only on the analysis of the current situation, so that architects understand the urban context of their projects, because mapping the effects and consequences of future development (scenario testing) is time-consuming. In some projects spatial analysis is used to analyze ready-made masterplans…
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Spatial analysis as a part of design loop
Our biggest ambition is to create a product which allows urban practitioners to integrate analysis of future project effects to their daily practice, turning analysis into a natural part of a design process at early project stages. Urban Calculator allows for early assessment in the starting phase of a project, when the critical decisions are…
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Our vision: from speculative towards evidence-based urban design and planning
We deem it crucial to change the way cities are planned and designed and advocate and from speculative towards evidence-based planning. An evidence-based approach is currently not a natural part of the design process when new neighbourhoods are planned. What is quite common instead, is to isolate a project from its context and evaluate planned…
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TWIN2EXPAND
Evgeniya Bobkova and Ioanna Stavroulaki have recently presented Urban Calculator at Chalmers University within TWIN2EXPAND research project. The TWIN2EXPAND project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe WIDERA program, brings together a consortium of leading European research institutions, including University College London (UCL), Polytechnic University of Turin, Chalmers University of Technology and Space Syntax Limited.…