Urban Planning and the Future of African Cities
It is a well-known fact that African cities face a challenging future. With some 65% of urban populations living in slum conditions and 70% in informal work, they are also...
It is a well-known fact that African cities face a challenging future. With some 65% of urban populations living in slum conditions and 70% in informal work, they are also...
Irregular settlements, also known as 'villas' or 'favelas', present a big challenge in urban planning. When collecting data, whether to determine the existing situation or to plan future projects, topography...
SmarterBetterCities is a software company located in Zurich, Switzerland, which creates CloudCities: a cloud platform for smart city planning and smarter urban management. In line with the SmarterBetterCities’ mission –...
Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and Esri president Jack Dangermond have unveiled the City of Los Angeles’ new GeoHub, one of the USA’s most complete collections of urban map data....
The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen, and alderman Boudewijn Revis of BSKB The Hague experimented in a real-life digital urban...
To encourage discussion of the challenges hindering the design and implementation of digital twins, the authors have ranked them based on a systematic literature review combined with an expert survey....
A pioneering project in Poland has proved that aerial mapping, combined with Lidar technology, can be an invaluable tool for accurately mapping the green urban environment. In fact, the new,...
The city of Zagreb has been developing a semantic 3D city model since 2008. The city spatial planning sector was recognized as the main project user and developer, while more...
Innovative methodologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) are lowering the barriers and democratizing the use of 3D digital twins in the geospatial industry. Digital twins are revolutionizing the geospatial industry,...
Lidar-powered Matterport technology was employed to create a 3D digital twin of the most famous inhabited bridge globally, the Krämerbrücke, situated in the city of Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. The Krämerbrücke...
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