Urban analytics for the built environment

Measure the city.
Understand the form.

Urbanize scores any location on the 5 Ds of the built environment — density, diversity, design, destination, and distance to transit.

5
Data sources
2.4M
Buildings indexed
2013–
Historical reach
12
POI categories
DENSITY·DIVERSITY·DESIGN·DESTINATION·DISTANCE·WALKABILITY·
DENSITY·DIVERSITY·DESIGN·DESTINATION·DISTANCE·WALKABILITY·
DENSITY·DIVERSITY·DESIGN·DESTINATION·DISTANCE·WALKABILITY·
DENSITY·DIVERSITY·DESIGN·DESTINATION·DISTANCE·WALKABILITY·

Capabilities

Draw & Analyze

Click anywhere. Choose a radius. Get instant metrics.

Building coverage, road density, intersection counts, land-use diversity — computed from OpenStreetMap and Google AI building footprints in seconds.

The 5 Ds

The academic standard for measuring urban form.

Every analysis scored on Density, Diversity, Design, Destination accessibility, and Distance to transit — the framework from Ewing & Cervero (2010), operationalised with full data provenance.

Dual-source validation

OSM for geometry. Google for ground truth.

2.4M+ AI-extracted building footprints from Google Open Buildings v3. Google Places for POI counts and ratings. OSM for road networks and historical data. Both sources shown side by side.

Time Travel

Compare any two years. See what changed.

Overpass Attic queries from 2015 to present. Building coverage trends, road network expansion, land-use shifts — quantified with signed deltas.

Reproducible

Every result is auditable.

CSV exports include the exact Overpass query, data timestamps, formula references, and benchmark bands. Download GeoJSON for GIS. Ready for academic citation.

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