When an additional 50,000 residents were predicted for the population of Uppsala, Sweden, by 2050, the city’s planners set out to create a new district with 33,000 housing units—and they wanted do so in a sustainable way.
It’s a familiar scenario, one playing out around the globe: housing crisis meets climate impacts. In Uppsala, they found a way to make sure new homes would not harm the biodiversity of the city-owned forest land where the new district is slated for construction while still fitting into existing city systems. It started with a location-aware digital twin enabled through a geographic approach.