Bristol used VU.CITY to bring its regeneration, housing, and transport plans to life for the public, rather than leaving them buried in reports and statistics.
Councils sit on years of investment plans: new neighbourhoods, transport links, jobs, homes. Getting residents, press, and investors to understand the scale and shape of that work is hard. Reports and statistics rarely land. People need to see a place before they believe in it.
Bristol built a flythrough of the city's development plans in VU.CITY and used it to open one of its highest-profile public moments: a major civic address to residents and press.
The flythrough takes viewers through the developments shaping Bristol's future, among them:
Seeing these projects modelled in place, rather than described on a slide, lets residents and press understand the scale and shape of a city's plans in a way text alone cannot manage.
Bristol's experience shows what happens when a council puts VU.CITY in front of the public, not just planning committees. The same model that supports day-to-day development decisions works just as well for:
One platform, one model, doing the planning job and the public-facing job at the same time.
See how VU.CITY could tell your city's story