UrbanEyes Masterplan

Plan a whole district on one live map.

Streets, land use, plots and buildings, with floor area, homes, people, jobs and open space worked out as you draw. Compare options, share with your team, export to CAD and 3D.

See how it works
34,000+architects, developers
and planners
Freeduring
early access
Floor area
2.7M m²
Homes
13,594
People
28,547
Jobs
45,986
Open space
10%

Land-use areas and every building by its use.

King’s Cross, London: 711 buildings from © OpenStreetMap contributors. Figures estimated from their footprints and heights.

Used by architects, planners and students at leading practices and universities

Practices and universities using UrbanEyes: BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Foster + Partners, Arup, AECOM, University of Westminster, TU Delft, Politecnico di Milano, Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Kharagpur and Amity University

What is UrbanEyes Masterplan?

A web app for planning at the scale of a district or new town. Set out the site, the streets, the land use and the plots, and the buildings follow. The capacity numbers stay live as you draw, so every option comes with its floor area, homes, people, jobs and open space.

Urban designers use it for masterplans and capacity studies, developers for feasibility across a whole site, and planning teams for phasing and options.

Scale
From a few blocks to a new town
Layers
Streets, land use, plots, buildings, open space, facilities, utilities
Numbers
GFA, FAR, homes, people, jobs, parking, open space
Options
Clone, change and compare, map and numbers
Files
DXF, KMZ and GeoJSON in; DXF, 3DM, GLB, XLSX and PDF out
Price
Free during early access

From the site to the buildings.

Each step builds on the one before. Change a street and the plots and buildings behind it follow. Shown on King’s Cross, London.

  1. 1

    Site and context

    Find the place or bring your drawings: the city around the site comes with it.

  2. 2

    Streets

    Lay out the network with real street sections, from boulevards to lanes.

  3. 3

    Land use and plots

    Paint plots with a land use, its FAR, height and people.

  4. 4

    Buildings

    Buildings rise from each use, ready to study in 3D.

The numbers, live as you draw.

Every land use carries its FAR, height, coverage, people per home and parking ratio. Paint a plot and the totals move, per plot, per block, per phase and for the whole plan.

  • Floor area, homes, population and jobs
  • Parking demand against supply
  • Open space per person, facilities against need
UseBuildingsFootprintFloor area
Housing49020.2 ha1,224k m²
Shops and offices1408.0 ha552k m²
Workshops and industry211.6 ha86k m²
Schools and civic313.4 ha216k m²
Other2910.5 ha617k m²
King’s Cross, London71172 ha site2.7M m²

Every plan a client asks for.

Heights, phasing and community facilities, plus FAR, typologies, street sections, public realm, parking, utilities and the parcellation plan.

Building heights

Building heights, from the tagged height or floors.

Phasing

The plan in three phases, each with its own numbers.

Community facilities

Schools and civic buildings with their 400 m catchments.

ResidentialCommercialUnder constructionIndustrialRail landsEducation and civicunder 10 m10 to 1818 to 2626 to 4040 m +Phase 1Phase 2Phase 3

Develop options, then compare them.

Clone the plan into a new option, change it, and read the two side by side, map and numbers.

Today

Homes
13,594
Jobs
45,986
Open space
10%

Option B: the rail lands as a park, workshops as homes

Homes
14,941+1,347
Jobs
45,986
Open space
22%+12 pts

Option B is an illustration of an option, not a proposal for King’s Cross.

One plan, many ways to show it.

Switch the whole scene from a working zoning model to plaster, a basswood study model or a dusk view, in one tap.

Zoning
Plaster
Basswood
Figure-ground
Cyanotype
Dusk

Your drawings in, deliverables out.

Bring in DXF from AutoCAD or Rhino, KMZ, KML or GeoJSON. Send out DXF with a layer per theme, 3D for Rhino, SketchUp and Blender, KMZ and GeoJSON, spreadsheets of the calculations and a PDF sheet set.

  • Rhino 8
  • SketchUp
  • AutoCAD
  • Blender
  • Unity
  • QGIS
  • ArcGIS
  • Google Earth

Plan it together.

  • Invite by emailEditors, commenters and viewers, each seeing what their role allows.
  • Live togetherChanges appear for everyone as they are made.
  • Teams shared with BoardsMove a plan into your office’s team and everyone has it.
  • VersionsEvery save kept, so you can look back or restore.

Questions, answered

UrbanEyes Masterplan is a web app for planning at the scale of a district or new town. You set out the site, the street network, land use and plots, and the buildings that follow from them, and it keeps the capacity numbers live as you draw: floor area, FAR, homes, population, jobs, parking, open space and the community facilities the population needs.

Yes, during early access. Sign up and start a plan; there is no card to enter. We will say well ahead of time before any part of it becomes paid.

Yes. Import DXF (from AutoCAD or Rhino) with a layer-to-land-use mapping, KMZ or KML boundaries and phases, or GeoJSON. Projected coordinates such as UTM are read and placed on the map.

Site and plot areas, GFA, FAR, homes, population, jobs, parking demand and supply, open space per person and the community facilities the population needs, per phase, block and plot.

Yes. Invite people by email as editors, commenters or viewers, or move a plan into a team you share with Boards. Changes appear for everyone as they are made.

DXF with a layer per theme, 3D massing for Rhino, SketchUp and Blender, KMZ and GeoJSON for GIS, spreadsheets of the calculations and a PDF sheet set with legends, scale bars and north points.

Start your next masterplan.

Find the place or bring your drawings. Free during early access.

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