urban knowledge discovery engine
Our mission is to organize the world’s information about urban policy and infrastructure interventions, with a special focus on their impact on the social and environmental sustainability of cities.
Urbanixm helps those who make our cities a better place
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Seek inspiration into ways to reach desired outcomes.
Find appropriate support examples for disseminating policy decisions.
- What have other comparable cities done to achieve Vision Zero?
- What has been the impact of comparable cycling network investments in other cities?
URBAN CONSULTANTS
Explore designs that have been tried and tested.
Find good impact examples to communicate design choices.
- Which cities are investing in blue-green infrastructure?
- Where have road-diets resulted in increased economic activity?
CITY THINK-TANKS and NGOs
Access up-to-date research on a specific urbanism topic.
Strengthen their position as though leaders in their area.
- What has been the impact of e-scooters on other transport modes?
- How does decentralization of workplaces impact commute demand?
Technology
The central part of Urbanixm is its knowledge curator,It is responsible of building an urbanism knowledge-base by automatically curating content crawled from the web.
The curation is carried out using a series of information organization tools powered by artificial intelligence.
The knowledge-base in then used to drive a series of other downstream products and services.
Stories
Urbanixm stories are short narratives on the impact of an urban intervention or urban policy, giving a preview of the content of the Urbanixm knowledge base.
Services
Using the Urbanixm knowledge base as a tool we carry out desk research on custom urban topics as well as carrying out varied types of spatial data analysis.
