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Urban Planning Place Making and Infrastructure
Horizon
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Nature-Centric Digital Planning

Description Example Impacts SDG Alignment
A nature-centric digital planning model offers Herbarium.ai Finland an urban
an advanced virtual environment for vegetation information and 3D Emission Quality of
integrating ecological systems, seasonal modeling provider with a repository of reduction Life
dynamics, and biodiversity into urban design species and types of urban
and simulation processes. This use case vegetation. First Use-Case in the
enables planners, ecologists, and designers to cities of Talinn and Helsinki. Target 11.3. Target 13.2
visualize and assess the role of green Biodiversity Walkability 11.6, 11.7
infrastructure, water cycles, and vegetation Tree-D Fusion: developed by MIT,
growth patterns within evolving cityscapes. By Google, Purdue University, it is an AI-
simulating temporal changes in natural powered system that generates Health and Citizen
elements and their interaction with human accurate 3D models of urban trees. Its wellbeing Engagement
activity, the use case supports scenario first case study was the modelling of Target 15.5; 15.9
testing for climate resilience, urban cooling, all trees in N-America.
and habitat connectivity. The platform
facilitates data-driven decision-making Both incorporate growth models that Risk Level
allowing for more adaptive, sustainable, and simulate seasonal changes and
regenerative urban environments. growth cycles. Public safety Low Medium High

Stakeholder acceptance Low Medium High
Key Technologies
Data privacy and security Low Medium High
Digital Meta- AR VR MR GAI AI IoT
Twin verse Financial/operational Low Medium High