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Digital twins (of places)

"[W]hat if there was a way to test and analyze different scenarios first, before ever breaking ground? That’s the thinking behind “digital twins” that are being made of cities all over the world, including Shanghai, New York, Singapore and Helsinki." - Samantha Bresnahan, CNN

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3D Utretcht
3d.utrecht.nl/app

3D Utretcht

An interactive 3D model of everything from buildings and parks to underground infrastructure, used by city officials, researchers, and residents to visualise changes and assess their impact before imp...

Utrecht
Digital twins (of places), Urban planning
Virtual Bradford
local.gov.uk/case-studies/bradford-district-council-digital-twin

Virtual Bradford

an open digital twin for the City of Bradford

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
since 2021
Digital twins (of places), Urban planning
Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10109

Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People

Stanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA
Peer-reviewed research, Academia, Artificial Intelligence
Google
FireBench
sites.research.google/gr/wildfires/firebench

FireBench

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity s...

Mountain View, CA
Civic data, Environmental data, Digital twins (of places)
fires
Urban Platform
urbanplatform.city

Urban Platform

A web solution designed for governments that provides the digital twin of the city, and delivers a real-time view of every street, plus insightful analytics to support decision-making and increase th...

Portugal 🇵🇹
Urban planning, Dashboards, Smart Cities and sensors
city, Sustainable cities and communities
Living-in.EU
living-in.eu

Living-in.EU

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

Estonia (Eesti Vabariik) 🇪🇪
since 2023
Manifestos, Digital transformation, Govtech
city, Sustainable cities and communities
TwinMotion
twinmotion.com

TwinMotion

A digital twin solution for buildings and urban planning that works with Autodesk

Urban planning, Digital twins (of places)
CityGML
opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml

CityGML

CityGML is an open data model and XML-based format for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.

Arlington, VA
since 2008
Civic data, Data schemas and standards, The Tech
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