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Happy Weekend, and Happy PARK(ing) Day!🏞 inCitu got an early start on #ClimateWeekNYC this week with lots of environmental programming! Here's a recap: 🛣 Downtown highway remedies are gaining traction across the country and breathing fresh air into downtowns and neighborhoods scarred by urban renewal. At International Downtown Association's #IDASea2024, we did a mockup of what reconnecting City of Seattle's I-5 corridor would look like. There's a real movement for this (lidI5.org) and we hope AR can contribute to making previously unimaginable undertakings feel within reach! 🏝 Sarah Vitale, AICP from Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council was our special guest for inCitu's second webinar on immersive visualization for climate resilience project. Sarah argued that to communicate climate risks and solutions that motivate, planners need to become multimedia storytellers-- we couldnt agree more! TBPRC's Alana Todd also put together a special AR demo with inCitu in just a few hours showing a #bioswale or living shoreline in context! 🗽Huge shoutout to Clay Starr and the Esri team for hosting an amazing workshop on GIS for Architects at Ennead Architects office in one world trade yesterday! Key takeaway: we cant make the built environment more sustainable by designing from blank pages. #ExistingConditions matter, and bringing urban planning into data-rich 3D can help those who build our cities achieve better outcomes. At the end of the day, we demoed inCitu AR in lower Manhattan, showing how stakeholders and the public can put context sensitive architecture to practice and finally see and have public conversations about proposals in their natural place. As we kick off climate week, what spatial conversations need to be had in your city? What futures might we explore together to find better paths forward? #ExistingConditions #GIS #AugmentedReality #UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange #EmergingTechnology #CommunityEngagement #BIM #Codesign #DataInformedDesign #PARKingDay Shiori Sasaki, AIA, ENV SP, LEED AP Lucrecia O'Har Alana Pogostin Roger Weld, PE, PMP, MBA Patrick Gahagan Carmela Quintos Andrew Buck, AICP Renia Kagkou Aurelie Barbier

High-performance real estate has become the norm. The demand for spaces to be dynamically resilient—smart, constantly adapting to user needs & optimizing resources in real time—is now paramount. Yet many fall short of the real-time adaptability needed to truly optimize costs, scalability & spatial intelligence. Our partner firm, GrydSense is reshaping these possibilities by eliminating the inefficiencies of fragmented systems with its unified, AI-powered platform. Their solution not only integrates real-time data to transform spatial operations but also enables spaces to function as truly responsive ecosystems, garnering interest from global tech leaders & education institutes worldwide. Explore more on how spatial intelligence is evolving for multi/sectors from Hospitals to Hotels, Industrial Facilities to Commercial Spaces, Education to Public Zones Blog - https://lnkd.in/dUUgjBgZ #SmartBuilding #PropTech #RealEstateTech #PropTechInnovation #TechInRealEstate #PropTechSolutions #DigitalRealEstate #FutureOfRealEstate #RealEstateTrends #loTInRealEstate #RealEstateAutomation ONE Global Design | GrydSense Yatin Patel | #MehulShah | Bimal D.

🌎Ever struggle to align content with location based AR? ⏰With inCitu, no need to run back and forth between PC and mobile, edit your city and save rotation, scale, height and position adjustments directly from the AR view! ✈️We built this feature to support our team in the field, managing remote projects. It's allowed us to avoid costly flights by training locals to make on site adjustments, it pushes the limits of current VPS technology, effectively expanding the coverage area with manual offsets. Edit mode is now available to all inCitu users! Video from this morning @ #CRETechNewYork2024 CREtech #AugmentedReality #XR #MixedReality #UrbanPlanning #Architecture #Urbanism #ArchViz #RealEstate #PropTech #UrbanTech #SmartCities

Toole Design Group, Smart Mobility, Visible City, and Our Streets Minneapolis released a whopper of a new report yesterday, analyzing the feasibility of a highway-to-boulevard conversion in the Twin Cities. The Rethinking I-94 project is one of the most consequential infrastructure projects in Twin Cities history. It will impact multiple generations.  Our collaborative report, "Reimagining I-94: A Report on Reparative Highway Alternatives & Evaluation Metrics," addresses how removing I-94 would work, what it might look like, and what community benefits it would unlock. Here's the report! https://lnkd.in/gpecxRUp #Rethinking94 #HighwayConversion #Multimodal #FutureCities #OurStreets

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 – large-scale interconnected data-driven systems that support digital urbanism – are already under development in several countries around the world. Typically, these systems offer administrative or medical services, or even cultural events, in a digital environment, where users or citizens are represented by digital avatars. As outlined above, such systems can also be used for urban planning and urban design. 

Future of design? Participatory. Just as I was about to wrap up my day at the #SmartCityExpo in Barcelona, a presentation caught my eye—like a cat spotting a laser pointer 🐾🌆 . 🎤 The speaker? Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer Noennig, the maestro of Digital City Science at HafenCity Hamburg GmbH Universität 🌍. He dove into participatory design 🤝—a topic that started to catch my attention recently. 🤩 After his talk, I had the chance to chat with Prof. Noennig. We discussed how his team tackles urban complexity 🏙️ using digital tools 💻, blending architectural design 🏛️, urban planning 🗺️, media tech 📡, IT 🔧, and software development 🖥️ into a harmonious symphony 🎶. Their work spans from deep-dive research 📖 to hands-on projects 🛠️, all while sharing knowledge through teaching and training 🎓. ✨ I’m excited to share our conversation soon! We explored how data-driven methods 📊 are not just buzzwords 💬 but are actively shaping the future of our cities 🌟. #design #participatorydesign #urbanplanning #community #story Mehmet Akif Ortak Torsten Holmer PS. if you do good work, and go to any expo/event, please use this free tool I've created to communicate the work you do - https://video.iggy.love - world needs to know about you!

Foster + Partners used #OasysMassMotion to explore the effect of social distancing and to test a variety of mitigation scenarios for the South Sabah project. The Urban Design Group ran a proximity analysis report which showed how people would move within a two-metre distance of each other. This allowed designers to test the residential density against the amount of public open space within a typical neighbourhood. Discover #MassMotion’s versatile capabilities: https://lnkd.in/e4DdH3Jz #SimulationSoftware #PedestrianSimulation #PeopleMovement #Simulation #ProximityAnalysis #UrbanDesign #CaseStudy

What #factors impact a #city's #walkability ❓❓ This is a fundamental question when developing a #walkability #index. And while it's tempting to answer by listing various factors, a more insightful first response might be, "Which city?" I am excited to announce that our #new #paper on developing a city-specific #walkability #index through a #participatory approach, with #Amsterdam as a case study, has been published at the #agile2024 conference and is now available online #openaccess. This work is based on the excellent research conducted by Matias Cardoso for his MSc thesis and is co-authored by Matias Cardoso, Maurice Harteveld, and myself. Our approach consists of 3 simple steps: 📖 Study the #literature to list the factors most commonly found to impact walkability (including literature related to the city of your interest). 💬 Ask #urban #experts who work in Amsterdam to prioritize the identified walkability factors while considering the characteristics and citizens of #Amsterdam. 🎬 Based on the experts create an overall walkability index, and sub-indices per theme (e.g., related to #landscape or #proximity), visualize them, and analyze them. Want to know more? 📜 Check out our open-access paper here: https://lnkd.in/dCmSnmU8 🗺 Interact and explore the developed walkability index through #CTstreets here: https://bit.ly/ctstreets ℹ Join Matias Cardoso who will be presenting our work at the #agile2024 conference on Friday (7th of June) during the Best Full Paper competition session 🤞 🤞 🤞 Delft University of Technology TU Delft | Industrial Design Engineering AMS Institute #urbananalytics #walkability #sdg11 #opendata

🌟 Transform Urban Design with DragGAN’s Release! 🌆 🎉 Big news in the tech community! The DragGAN source code is now out in the wild, ready to empower urban planners and visionaries! ✨ With DragGAN, you’re not just planning cities, you’re sculpting the future. This tool brings a new dimension to image manipulation, allowing for detailed adjustments in shape, layout, and pose. 🌐 Envision a world where every urban space is a masterpiece of efficiency and aesthetics. DragGAN is your digital chisel, carving out possibilities that were once just dreams. 🛠️ Thanks to the researchers’ innovative interactive technique, you can tweak your designs by simply dragging points across the image, ensuring every detail is just right. 🚀 While we celebrate this leap forward, we remain committed to responsible use, respecting privacy and rights in our creations. 🔗 Dive into the details and get the tools: Explore the Paper: https://lnkd.in/eTMbFpTM Access the Code: https://lnkd.in/e7x2vzkU Try the Demo: https://lnkd.in/efgkFDcA #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepLearning #GANs #UrbanDesign #TechInnovation #FutureCities

💥 Proptech Media is taking the next step by partnering with a leading event in the development and construction industry — London Build 2024. This year, they have lined up a range of PropTech speakers and curated the hottest topics for you not to miss. Check it out in article 💬 #proptech #contech #construction #development