Analytical and Experiential Platforms for Community Engagement
The City Science Group has pioneered an evidence-based, data-driven approach to foster consensus through the development of CityScope—an interactive platform designed to enable stakeholders to visualize and assess the impacts of various urban interventions collaboratively. CityScope allows participants to explore scenarios related to housing types and density, amenities, transportation infrastructure, and public space reconfigurations to facilitate a deeper understanding of potential outcomes.
Our current project to help residents in San Francisco participate in the rezoning process provides two views of each possible future:
- Analytics: a quantification of urban performance metrics and the visualization of simulations to communicate complex information
- Experience: a perceptual view of how each proposal might change the character of their community with high-fidelity visualizations of how the streetscape may evolve over time.
Why It Matters
Deploying tools like CityScope transforms the decision-making process from top-down directives to inclusive, participatory planning.