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Urban Design Visualization with CityEngine and Generative AI

By Ricardo Cabrera Nyst and Avonlea Fotheringham

As artificial intelligence continues to be the topic of the moment, this article will give you an overview on how AI generative tools can help visualize urban designs created in ArcGIS CityEngine and ArcGIS Urban.

The content shown in this article is the result of an investigation carried out at the Esri R&D Center Zurich in collaboration with Brave Studio GmbH. Different AI generative tools were tested using CityEngine screenshots to create realistic visualizations.

Bringing urban models to life through visualization

Four images depicting different design proposals for an urban green space
Test multiple design scenarios with rich, lifelike visualizations

Architectural visualization is a fundamental part of urban design. It’s only when we transform the formal massing volumes into tangible architecture that we start getting a sense of scale at a human level.

Visualizing our concepts as real projects is a key step to validating our proposals. It’s also a powerful tool to convey the atmosphere we aim to create.

Interested in learning how CityEngine and generative AI can work together to create astounding visualizations in a matter of seconds? Read the full tutorial:

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