Orlando, Fla.—GameSim Inc, provider of products and services to the entertainment, modeling & simulation, and geospatial industries, delivered 3D urban planning visualization media to the City of Goleta, California. GameSim worked with the City of Goleta…
Gemeente Hoorn Mitigates Urban Planning Risk with Palisade’s @RISK
London, Aug. 18, 2015—Local government planners from Gemeente Hoorn (the City of Hoorn) are using Palisade’s leading risk analysis tool @RISK to mitigate…
The Netherlands Embraces Tygron Urban Planning System
The prime minister Mark Rutte, minister of Infrastructure and the Environment Melanie Schultz, and alderman Boudewijn Revis of BSKB The Hague experimented…
Urban Labs Innovation Challenge to Focus on Chicago
CHICAGO, March 10, 2015—Although the work of UChicago Urban Labs is global, its inaugural competition for partners seeks promising ideas that can be implemented in the city of Chicago. The Urban Labs Innovation Challenge seeks to generate evidence on what…
UN Underscores Importance of Good Urban Planning for Sustainable Development
With more than two-thirds of humanity expected to live in cities by the middle of this century, strong, well-planned urbanization is vital for development, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told an international group of Government officials and experts…
More than Half of World’s Population Now Living in Urban Areas, UN Survey Finds
An additional 2.5 billion people are predicted to live in urban areas by 2050, the United Nations today reported, highlighting the need for a successful urban planning agenda and greater attention to be given to smaller cities where nearly half of all people…
OGC Seeks Comment on Charter for New Urban Planning Domain Working Group
An OGC Urban Planning Domain Working Group (SWG) is being chartered to define the role for OGC standards and related activities within the Urban Planning Discipline and to provide an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements,…
Siemens Teams up with UN-Habitat to Produce ‘Urban Planning for City Leaders’
Urban Planning for City Leaders is a UN-Habitat initiative to provide local leaders and decision makers with the tools to support urban planning good practice. It aims to inform leaders about the value that urban planning could bring to their cities and…
Indra Leads the European Decamanus Project to Provide Cities with Geospatial Intelligence
Indra is leading the European Decumanus R&D project, aimed at developing new geospatial intelligence to support urban development and improve quality of life in cities. These services will provide information on a range of variables related with climate,…
A Greater Sydney Commission to Manage the City’s Growth and Development
NSW Premier Mike Baird and Planning Minister Pru Goward have announced plans to establish a Greater Sydney Commission to modernise the delivery of NSW’s major infrastructure and urban planning priorities. To be based in Western Sydney, the agency could be…
