elementslab supported workshops for City of Vancouver community staff using UD-Co-Spaces and CityEngine.  From these urban design metrics and visualizations of contemplated land use planning were developed for the ongoing Marpole Community Plan (2014) process. This work assisted staff, city council, and community stakeholders to understand the degree to which the plan helped the city to meet its larger sustainability goals.

This was a uniquely collaborative process between UBC researchers and City of Vancouver staff including two interactive workshops to test and measure alternative planning scenarios. An initial workshop used Co-Spaces to test urban design parameters for focused study areas. A second workshop visualized the plan in 3D across the entire neighbourhood and enabled the planners to adjust built form while concurrently viewing key metrics such as land use, transit density and energy conditions. This facilitated comparison of existing to proposed conditions and one scenario against others. Once a land use plan was finalized, visualizations of metrics were prepared public presentation at Marpole Community Plan Open Houses.