The new Rapid Urbanism Explorer is online. RUE 05 empowers users drawing the site of any envisaged urbanization project anywhere on Earth, to then prototype integrated urbanization scenarios, rapidly.

Users define the site (green), main road (red) and distributor roads (orange), as well as additional parameters (e.g., development control). Based on the defined site and defined parameters (e.g., road width), RUE will generate a 3D model for a climate-smart and inclusive human settlement on the site; all quantities are sent to a financial model where costs and revenues are priced, and the profitability, fiscal feasibility, and affordability are assessed. Also environmental parameters, such as land use efficiency, are analyzed.

Finally, iterative exploration of user inputs and parametrically generated scenarios allows assessing legal (e.g., development control), spatial (e.g., site and housing development), financial (e.g., profitability), social (e.g., affordability to various target groups), and environmental (e.g., land consumption) impact, and to optimize scenarios accordingly.

Disclaimer: the software development of this version was commissioned and financed by Matthias Nohn alias Rapid Urbanism. The prototype is free to use; a future premium version is envisaged to permit downloads of the spatial and quantitative (financial/social/environmental) models against fair pricing, considering project location (e.g., developing vs developed country) and size (e.g., 10ha vs 100ha).