Category:Urban Calculator

Urban Calculator is a limited company (non-profit) based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was founded in 2022 by Meta Berghauser Pont, Associate Professor in Urban Design, Lars Marcus, Professor in Urban Design, Ioanna Stavroulaki, Senior researcher in Spatial Morphology and Evgeniya Bobkova, post-doctoral researcher in Urban Design. All are co-owners, shareholders, and board members in the company. All co-owners are part of the Spatial Morphology Group (SMoG) at the Division of Urban Design and Planning, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology.

Urban Calculator, develops and disseminates Urban Calculator (UC); a design-support software that makes advanced spatial analyses accessible for everyone active in urban development. Urban Calculator allows urban practitioners without prior knowledge of spatial analysis digital tools or GIS (Geographic Information Systems) to learn and integrate spatial analysis to their daily practice, making it part of their design process. Targeting main reasons why practitioners do not use analysis tools and analytic evidence in the design and decision-making process (i.e., no prior knowledge, limited data, time, and resources) the software aims to promote and facilitate evidence-based design and planning in practice, with a specific focus on planning walkable and livable cities in line with Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) of the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.