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Enabling Data, Design & Participation

For Better Streets & Urban Spaces

We are at the juncture of design and innovation for cities and how it can have a meaningful impact through participation, data insights and people oriented design. 

Our process and design tools integrates people and stakeholders to be part of the process and measure quality of streets, public areas and infrastructure to have localised vision plans and solutions. 

City planners and citizens can assess an area, provide inputs as well as co-create designs & interventions. 

We further create design proposals and improvement plans for specific neighbourhoods & streets based on people-centric approach to enable a shift towards sustainable mobility & built environment. 

 Street Data & Benchmarking 

Engage 
Crowdsource Data & Score Streets by engaging Citizens 

Evaluate
Analyse and streets based on comfort, access, safety and others espects

Improve
Improve the street based on specific needs 

Redesign
Improvement proposals based on scores and citizen suggestions

 Practical Insights 

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Making your neighbourhood liveable & walkable  

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People-friendly street design is vital for cities to improve their quality of life and also to shift modes of commute from car-dependent to more sustainable modes. Data based metrics and participation helps the design process to become more localized and provide evidence based project interventions. 

TOP 5 INTERNATIONAL STARTUPS 2021
Selected & Supported by EIT Urban Mobility Scale-Then Global   

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CITIZENS

Score, provide suggestions & participate in design process

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CITY OFFICERS

Easy Data collection and analysis on people-oriented design

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DECISION MAKERS

Undertaking actions and targeted projects at local & city level

Public Spaces & Parks

How can a city create healthy & responsive Public Spaces? 
Citypoints App 

Initiated as part of smart cities fellowship this feature allows viewing and rating of parks and public areas based on developed parameters. A citizen can also use it to explore otherwise unknown public areas, facilities and give their suggestions to the city departments. The app details have been included as part of smart solutions for Indian cities with an opensource code platform supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The various places covered in this tool are Parks, Heritage Zone, Markets, Transit areas and Waterfronts. . 

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Conduct Neighbourhood Level Assessment

Ensure Street Design Guidelines 

Build on Inclusive and Human Centered Design 

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Shubhashweti Sinha
Founder & Principal Architect
MSc. International Cooperation (Emergency Arch.) UIC Barcelona
Fellow, Smart Cities 2019

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Harshal Bopardikar
Local Advisor & Implementation Partner
MTech, Urban, Community & Regional Planning
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Shubhashweti Sinha is an Architect with an MSc in International Cooperation & Sustainable Emergency Architecture from UIC, Barcelona. Her work is focused on innovative design & community based solutions, climate responsive urban development, public spaces and post-disaster rebuilding. After working on various urban design, transport & TOD proposals in India she initiated UrbancoLab taking ahead sustainable architecture & urban research projects. She was a fellow with the Smart Cities Mission in 2019 which further evolved to creating data based solutions with human centric urban design.
Harshal Bopardikar holds a masters in Urban and Regional Planning from VNIT and has worked as a technical knowledge partner to Nagpur Smart and Sustainable city Development Corporation Limited (NSSCDCL) assisting in executing initiatives such as Street4People and Cycle4Change challenge with expertise in Road Safety and Transport.
Collaborators 
UNAI at Dr. B. N College of Architecture, Pune
Studio AE, Nagpur

CONTACT

info@urbancolab.city

+91 9004230498

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