Consolidate spatial data
Work with and store all 2D and 3D data related to the built environment, including a region’s existing data layers, digital zoning codes, land use information, and more.
Data-Driven Urban Design
Planning software built for collaboration
Plan with precision
As cities consider the bigger picture in community planning, designs are increasingly expected to be spatially and scientifically complex. To keep pace, firms can deploy new technologies that support dynamic, measured design processes from the start.
ArcGIS Urban is a web-based 3D experience that improves urban planning and decision making. With a mix of modeling technology, you can integrate the process of designing, updating, monitoring, and publishing across all domains of spatial planning as well as building and infrastructure projects. Capture intelligence from disciplines such as architecture, urban planning, and structural and civil engineering and maintain a common operational view for all stakeholders—from the earliest sketches to approval and beyond.
Empower your planning team
Update your planning process with quick access to the GIS data you need to inform zoning and land use plans. Then, engage directly with stakeholders in a shareable, interactive web-based platform.
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Sketch and optimize build out scenarios
Build out planning scenarios with 3D modeling directly in the web browser. Lay out a vision for any parcel, district, or neighborhood starting with a sketch. Then, further refine your designs with the help of interactive snapping and drawing guides.
Streamline design evaluation with dashboards
Real-time dashboards are a fundamental capability used to instantly calculate the impact of a build-out over time. Custom metrics enable you to calculate yield, estimate costs, and summarize value across your scenarios.
Test land-use and zoning code changes
Working in the browser, you can compare current land-use with the proposed changes. By testing zoning proposals, such as rezoning or zoning variances, you can better evaluate short and long-term impacts to the community.
Suitability modeling
Overlay and weight themes related to population change, economic growth, residual zoning allowances, and other factors as a basis for understanding market conditions and site suitability.
Perform interactive spatial analysis
Simplify the review planning scenarios by simulating the impact of shadow duration and viewshed. You can also create sectioned views of the model to reveal internal structures allowing you to measure the height and width of objects and buildings. Data, plus quantitative analysis, plus spatial analysis, equals a more informed approach to plan review.
Transform urban planning and design
Encourage collaboration with stakeholders and help all groups work towards a more sustainable future.
Any assignment generates a lot of data, and besides what we produce, which is the structure, we want to operationalize all the context data that we receive. Urban design is really where the magic happens in a city."
Adam Sjödin
Digital Strategist, Sweco