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The Playground Project Builder helps you simplify your message into words that everyone can understand. With the help of visuals and immersive VR experiences, we inform citizens about your project in an engaging way. Made simple for you in form of templates.
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Re-Engage The Relevant Groups
Keep your audience engaged with interactive surveys and quizzes. As your project progresses, we will inform the participants of new changes and our AI assistant will help you create the perfect questions to gather the insights you need.
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Powerful Survey Engine
Create any type of survey, from simple to complex. Got stuck? Our AI assistant will suggest relevant questions for your project and help you get back on track.
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Insanely Detailed Analytics
Our state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing algorithms help you extract meaningful insights from the data. Combine that with the powerful filters to focus on what matters most.
Flexible and Scalable from the start
Seamless Integration Into Your Current Workflow
Playground City was built to effortlessly co-exist with your current tools. For example, if you're already comfortable with the way you collect data, but you prefer our analytics engine - you can easily import the data and export the reports in your favourite formats.
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A playground for co-creation: a digital approach
In today's built environment, inefficiencies plague the design process, leading to common delays. The coordination between us architects and consultants, weighing costs and benefits, often results in a slow and tedious design process. Delay becomes the tool to prevent problems or bottlenecks in later stages. Early intervention in the process can have a significant impact at a lower cost, while costs rise exponentially as the process progresses, and solutions become increasingly complex.
Identifying Citizen Engagement Challenges in Urban Development
In this latest edition of the Playground Perspective series, we deep dive into the pressing challenges faced by urban development in an era of rapid global urbanization. Urban growth brings with it opportunities for economic progress and innovation, but it also leads to complex issues. These challenges include housing shortages, infrastructural demands, and environmental concerns. To ensure that urban expansion benefits all sections of society, we need holistic, comprehensive and proactive strategies for city planning and development. In this article, we explore these challenges in detail, emphasizing the delicate balance between rapid development and sustainability. We also underscore the pivotal role of inclusive citizen engagement in shaping and streamlining the future of urban planning. Our objective is to contribute to a dialogue that drives the creation of resilient, equitable, and sustainable urban environments.
Participation in Urban Development: A New Perspective
Projections indicate that over 70% of the world’s population will inhabit cities by 2050*, intensifying the demand for housing and infrastructure. The Netherlands exemplifies this trend, where the housing shortage is expected to rise to 415,000 homes** by the end of 2024. This trend is not just a temporary surge but is projected to continue at least until 2028***, highlighting the urgency for innovative solutions in urban development. Similar trends can be observed in Berlin and Barcelona, where the influx of residents in recent years has led to rising rental prices and a shortage of affordable housing, prompting the city to consider various measures, such as rent controls. In addition, as climate change poses new challenges for cities globally, including increased rainfall, there is a pressing need for adaptive and absorbent infrastructure to manage these impacts effectively.[Fig. 1] This article, part of the “Playground Perspectives” series, underscores the imperative to build well, incorporating citizen participation in neways (multiple levels of inclusivity, transparency, and engagement following a citizen-centric approach enabled by current technological opportunities) to create sustainable, livable urban spaces. To do so, we need to start by rethinking what participation means.
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