In cities across the world, governments use data—about infrastructure, health and safety, or citizen satisfaction—to improve services. But data also has a critical role in shaping the very space of ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

From courtrooms to the town clerk's office, lawyers and developers alike are finding that complicated blueprints of new housing developments or static renderings that reconstruct accidents just don't ...

A 3D urban simulation tool that the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) developed nearly 20 years ago is still in operation, helping architects and administrators with construction challenges ...

In an article recently submitted to the a rXiv* server, researchers unveiled MetaUrban, a simulation platform designed for artificial intelligence (AI) systems interacting physically in urban ...

Urban economic models should raise the quality of debate about planning at the metropolitan level. Now research shows how this can be done. Most debate over urban public policy, especially land-use ...

The United Arab Emirates is quietly positioning itself as a global leader in urban air mobility, turning futuristic concepts of autonomous flying taxis and delivery drones into a regulated, testable ...

There's been a noticeable gap in the urban simulation genre the past five years, or basically since EA and Maxis last made a SimCity game. Sure, there have been plenty of city-building games that let ...