City Planning Technology – Innovating the city design process

Sustainable cities can be designed and planned intelligently starting from the beginning through the application of data analytics and simulations.

(Photo credit: Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Development and Investment)

Designers can efficiently conceptualize and rapid prototype all aspects that constitute to the infrastructure of a sustainable city – building configuration, urban mobility, energy planning, green space, smart government, etc.

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The Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S. is working on the application of “CityScope” which combines deep image technology and physical lego bricks to facilitate early-stage zoning exercises and schematic designs through visualized prototyping.

(Photo credit: MIT Media Lab)
(Photo credit: MIT Media Lab)