Make better design and planning decisions, faster.

How can I use VU.CITY?

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VU.CITY is transforming cities through greater understanding, collaboration and trust to help you turn possibilities into realities.‍

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Test ideas instantly and visualize schemes in accurate, up-to-date context, with functionality and data that helps you make better decisions, faster.

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VU.CITY means that architects, developers, planning consultants and local authorities share a clear path in mapping out a city’s future. Now everyone can work together to deliver the best possible city for all.

Create smart cities the smart way

VU.CITY helps you visualize, organise and analyse data clearly and easily so that everyone involved can make better and quicker decisions.

VU.CITY covers the whole of London and 23 major UK and international cities.

Quickly identify and appraise sites. VU.CITY's visualization, design functionality and planning data, allow you to optimise your designs.

Transform design and planning

Now everyone involved can have a clear, universal understanding of what’s proposed and why, in a single, secure place. VU.CITY makes decision-making democratic and fair.

Build trust and collaboration

Remove barriers and minimise risks early. Have confidence in your designs and plans. Increase buy-in for project success.

Improve
outcomes

Test out ideas in situ, from one building to a masterplan. Create your vision and submissions with confidence.

Collate site information in one place

Communicate complex spatial arrangements

Make documentation stand up and stand out

Speed up planning conversations

Strengthen relationships

Create winning submissions

In your words

“We’re bringing in architects and our clients and different consultants in one room and we’re viewing the drawing, the architecture and the massing through VU.CITY.”

Charlotte Orrell

Senior Planner at Iceni Projects

“Before, we would spend hours trawling sources looking for the historic buildings in our area, and even longer to take accurate measurements of surrounds. I cannot believe how much time this is going to save me.”

Oliver Bywater

Architect - Woods Bagot Architects

"The students were greatly helped by exploring their conceptual designs in their urban context by using VU.CITY’s accurate and immersive city model of London. It gives them greater understanding of their chosen sites and enhances their ability to portray their architectural ideas visually."

Professor Murray Fraser

Professor of Architecture and Global Culture, The Bartlett School of Architecture - UCL Faculty of the Built Environment

“VU.CITY helps us make faster decisions on site feasibility. With the platform’s tools and data, we can quickly understand site opportunities and constraints, work more collaboratively with the project team, community and local authority, ultimately helping us reduce risk and abortive costs throughout the planning process.”

David Barnett

CEO & Founder - Londonewcastle

“Architecture is essentially a 3D discipline, so VU.CITY is effectively showing what is already in an architect’s head in a way that hasn’t been possible before. The platform enables you to immediately understand the cityscape, the context, constraints, daylight, sunlight and the view angles, not just as it is today, but how it will be in the future. That’s incredibly valuable.”

Simon Erridge

Director - Bennetts Associates

The platform is really helping us communicate those kinds of insights among our consultant team which then enables for a faster and more insightful decision making process.