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Urban planning

Explore 82 projects in the Urban planning category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

Tools that seek to improve urban planning processes by digitizing them and making them more accessible to residents.

82 projects

Buildability

Buildability is a platform for researching the viability and risk of building and construction on land plots across the United States.

2026

CityCompass

CityCompass is a commercial agent-based urban simulation platform from Urbanly that models households, firms and developers so planners can test land-use, transit and housing scenarios for a region.

ENHANCE Cities

ENHANCE Cities is a free interactive mapping tool from UCL's CASA that visualises urban-planning and sustainable-transport indicators, transport accessibility, travel sustainability, brownfield sites, 15-minute-city access, across England and Wales, from national to neighbourhood scale.

Marylebone, London, UK
2026

The Bay Dashboard

he Bay Dashboard is an independent, student-built civic dashboard that gathers scattered public planning records across all 101 Bay Area cities, what's being built near you, which board decides it, and when it meets, into one resident-facing tracker with plain-English meeting summaries.

San Francisco

What's Being Built in Brooklyn Heights?

A continually updated guide to major development, infrastructure, preservation and civic changes shaping Brooklyn Heights.

New York City
2026

StreetSmart

StreetSmart helps you see what's working, what's missing and how your street affects your safety, freedom and health.

2026

HousingWeaver

Always-current dashboards, maps, and Housing Needs Assessment tools built for housing professionals and local government.

New York City

Yokohama City

Introducing a 'Community Development Council' system where local residents proactively participate in town planning.

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