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Urban Calculator joins InPlaLabs project
Read More: Urban Calculator joins InPlaLabs projectUrban Calculator is pleased to announce its participation in the InPlaLabs project, a KA2 Cooperation Partnership Erasmus+ initiative led by National Technical University of Athens. Together with Commonspace (Athens), NTUA, University of Cyprus, and Bond of Union (Palermo), we are committed to establishing a multi-level, multi-stakeholder network with a primary focus on integrated urban planning.…
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Introducing Urban Calculator in Helsingborg: Enhancing City Planning Processes
Read More: Introducing Urban Calculator in Helsingborg: Enhancing City Planning ProcessesWe’re excited to announce that this year the City Planning Office of Helsingborg is starting to integrate Urban Calculator into their toolkit for analyzing and evaluating spatial interventions within their detailed planning processes. Designed to streamline planning procedures, Urban Calculator offers an intuitive interface accessible to planners, irrespective of their GIS proficiency. This tool empowers…
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Measuring urban form to empower architects and planners to perform their art with the precision required
Read More: Measuring urban form to empower architects and planners to perform their art with the precision requiredWatch online Meta Berghauser Pont’s promotion lecture for Professor on the 6th of November in case you missed it! https://play.chalmers.se/media/Promotion+Lecture+Meta+Berghauser+Pont/0_8z6qv8rl Cities have the potential, if designed and planned well, to contribute to sustainable development. An integral evidence-based design approach is needed to make strategic and accurate design choices with comprehension of consequences, both positive and…
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Urban Calculator in education
Read More: Urban Calculator in educationUrban 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.
Read More: 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
Read More: Spatial analysis as a part of design loopOur 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
Read More: Our vision: from speculative towards evidence-based urban design and planningWe 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
Read More: TWIN2EXPANDEvgeniya 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.…
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How does Urban Calculator contribute to Sustainable Development Agenda?
Read More: How does Urban Calculator contribute to Sustainable Development Agenda?In line with the Sustainable Development agenda, urban environments should, besides providing equal access to services, become more walkable to reduce car-dependency and CO2 emissions. According to NACTO (2013), cars and trucks account for 40% of all CO2 emissions across the globe. Urban Calculator supports the design of walkable environments reducing car dependency and the…