Informed Design Platform Multi-modal Data to Support Urban Design Decision Making

Abstract

Evidence based urban design and planning support benefits from providing designers with multi-source, multi-scale and multi-time information, which is both `big' and `small', and quantitative and qualitative. We are developing a platform, namely Informed Design Platform, that adopts a (big) data driven approach to derive insights and principles in order to adaptively design or re-design various forms of urban public spaces based on usage patterns and perceptions of the public. This platform is designed using a four step methodology of data collection, integration, analysis, and visualization. Multi-source data is integrated based on three analysis dimensions: place, time and people; and four analysis pillars: utilization, activity, opinion and sensing. This paper describes the aims, the design principles, and partial results of development of this platform.