Finding strategic locations for informed urban planning in a changing world

The world is fast-moving. Technological advances are happening and urban planning remains to be an important aspect of development. More and more people choose to live in urban areas for education, work and for improved health services. Now more than ever, we need urban planning to keep these spaces in order and where are needed the most. However, the process has a lot of challenges, including that data collection is tedious and prone to errors.  



Suitability is an urban planning tool that identifies optimal location for a specific activity within a city. Suitability also supports national urban planning agencies and city governments to perform land suitability assessment to plan for infrastructure deficits at the city and local levels, enabling inter-departmental coordination and a strategic planning approach.



A powerful tool for
innovative planners

Suitability is a powerful tool built to support stakeholders in evidence-based decision-making. City planners will be able to analyze and communicate data more efficiently.

Also, the tool shortens iterative processes. City planners no longer need to download, standardize, and organize data because the tool performs these tasks in seconds.


Built to analyze
neighborhoods or cities

In order to understand the needs of service provision in rapidly changing built environments, Suitability supports national urban planning agencies and local governments to perform land suitability assessment. In that sense, the Suitability tool will aid planning for infrastructure deficits at the city and local levels, enable inter-departamental coordination, disrupt siloes and usher to a strategic planning approach.



A tool create consensus and identify priorities


It's all about flexibility

A web app
Perform agile assessments and save the trouble of downloading and installing software.  

Open source

All the methods in the tool are transparent, replicable, and of course, customizable.

Multiplatform
Access the tool from any operative system. All you need is a browser and internet access.

Flexible
Host the tool in your own computer, in a Linux server or in the cloud. 



Suitability at a glance