Real-World Impact

Case Studies

See how leading organizations de-risk complex projects. Geodesignhub provides a map-based negotiation platform that turns stakeholder conflict into clear, data-driven decisions for planning, investment, and development.




Public Engagement Disaster Recovery & Resilience Multi-Jurisdictional Planning Indigenous & Community Land Management Tactical Urbanism & Mobility Heritage Restoration Climate & Densification Nature-Based Solutions
Public EngagementTourism

Cromane, County Kerry, Ireland

Challenge: public engagement for fisheries and tourism development

Key stakeholders: local authorities and community groups balancing tourism growth with a legacy industry

Outcomes Turned a multi-theme public debate — tourism, fisheries, infrastructure — into a structured, consensus-driven economic and management strategy, with kids and citizens alike able to take part.
  • Structured negotiations across tourism, fisheries and financial decision-making
  • Consensus-driven investment strategy for the village's Pier and infrastructure
  • Built lasting community capacity for collaborative decision-making
Multi-Jurisdictional PlanningUrban Design

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Challenge: Aligning city planners, stadium owners, and commercial interests on a plan to manage large crowds.

Key stakeholders: city planning departments coordinating stadium owners, commercial interests and residents

Result: Provided a shared negotiation platform to get all key stakeholders—stadium operators, businesses, and city officials—to agree on a growth plan that prevented gridlock.
  • Strategy for events attracting up to 80,000 visitors
  • Densification plan balancing housing pressure and transit capacity
  • 3D visualization integrated with the city's digital twin software
Nature-Based Solutions

Ramat Gan, Israel

Challenge: build a tree planting strategy for canopy management

Key stakeholders: city planners, green infrastructure managers and environmental teams in council

Outcomes Used the Shadepoint app to build an optimal, budget-aware canopy management and tree planting strategy, visualized in 3D.
  • Used Shadepoint app to develop a canopy management and tree planting strategy
  • Worked within budget constraints to build an optimal shade management strategy
  • Viewed impacts in 3D to maximize shaded pedestrian and bike infrastructure
Disaster Recovery & Resilience

Norcia, Perugia, Italy

Challenge: post-earthquake rehabilitation and recovery strategy for a medium sized town

Key stakeholders: emergency response agencies, mayors' offices and recovery planners after a disaster

Outcomes Compressed months of scattered recovery planning into a coordinated, data-backed rehabilitation strategy that citizens could see and vote on digitally.
  • Medium-term rehabilitation strategy built on national seismological data
  • Digital public voting to share results with the wider community
  • Coordinated negotiation between emergency agencies, officials and experts
Tactical Urbanism & Mobility

Bandera Street, Santiago, Chile

Challenge: tactical interventions for street design, pedestrian flow and infrastructure for new mobility

Key stakeholders: city mobility teams testing pedestrianization and street-space reallocation quickly

Outcomes Rapidly produced an early-stage masterplan for one of Santiago's busiest streets, exporting data via API to model e-bike, bicycle and pedestrian impacts.
  • Early-stage masterplan for pedestrianization and parking policy
  • Semi-automated geo-computational street analysis from cadastral data
  • Data exported via API for external new-mobility analysis
Indigenous & Community Land Management

Sif Oidak and Others, Arizona, USA

Challenge: citizen-led digital-first land management in Native American reservations

Key stakeholders: tribal governments and community organizations wanting locally-led, digital-first land management

Outcomes Let residents leapfrog from paper-based plans straight to digital mapping — capturing local knowledge and reaching land-use consensus for the first time.
  • Award-winning, citizen-led land management funded with Arizona State University
  • Meetings taken directly to remote casinos and community halls
  • Cultural and heritage sites mapped from first-hand community knowledge
Multi-Jurisdictional Planning

Savannah, Georgia, USA

Challenge: co-ordination between ten counties and regional authorities for management of Coastal Georgia

Key stakeholders: regional commissions coordinating growth and conservation across many counties at once

Result: All twelve teams could negotiate and compare complex scenarios in real-time, leading to a balanced plan that satisfied both economic and environmental stakeholders.
  • Got ten counties and two regional authorities to agree on a single development and conservation strategy
  • Balanced conservation priorities against economic development goals
  • "Helped practitioners see connections between geography and society" — Coastal Regional Commission
Heritage Restoration

Kabul, Afghanistan

Challenge: restoration of heritage sites in a post-conflict zone in central Kabul

Key stakeholders: cultural trusts and heritage teams managing restoration funding in fragile contexts

Outcomes Supported the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in translating the Kabul Riverfront Transformation feasibility study into a fundable, visualized management strategy.
  • Training and organizational strategy for effective use of funding
  • Survey of existing actions and identification of funding gaps
  • Outcomes shared via an open-source 3D viewer
Public Engagement

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Challenge: public engagement for formalizing urban settlements

Key stakeholders: city administrations negotiating the "regularization" of informal settlements with residents

Outcomes Used drone-built 3D models and simultaneous visualization so residents and city officials could negotiate legal, environmental and economic upgrades together, as equals.
  • Legal ownership regularization alongside jobs and income generation planning
  • Drone-surveyed 3D digital model supporting community mental mapping
  • "The technicians and people of the place worked in harmony" — resident of the settlement
Climate & Densification

State College, Pennsylvania, USA

Challenge: environmental management and protection strategy near a state forest

Key stakeholders: planning teams protecting sensitive land under development pressure

Outcomes Combined field survey data with a facilitated stakeholder workshop to reach consensus on protecting a strategically important piece of land.
  • Surveys and data imported directly into Geodesignhub for negotiation
  • Half-day workshop bringing professionals and community members together
  • Digital negotiation process for a development-sensitive site
Climate & Densification

Lomma, Skåne, Sweden

Challenge: densification of the urban core and financial implications

Key stakeholders: municipalities balancing population growth against flood risk and agricultural land

Outcomes Gave Lomma Municipality a systematic, financially grounded way to weigh densification options against flood risk and farmland protection.
  • 3D visualization of future land-use patterns and landscape impact
  • Asset Analysis plugin used to model financial implications of densification
  • Policy analysis across multiple strategies simultaneously
Multi-Jurisdictional Planning

Coimbra, Portugal

Challenge: redevelopment of critical infrastructure and local response to infrastructure development

Key stakeholders: civil society, private companies and their engagement with multi-jurisdictional / national level infrastructure projects

Outcomes Developed consensus and a way forward with the authorities for a diverse set of stakeholders, achieving broad acceptance about the way forward in the context of historic issues and diverging positions.
  • Developed consensus and a way forward with the authorities for a diverse set of stakeholders
  • Achieved broad acceptance about the way forward in context of historic issues and diverging positions
  • Reporting, engagement and outreach to authorities and broader community
Tactical Urbanism & Mobility

Moss Side, Manchester, United Kingdom

Challenge: building an active transport plan for Moss Side, Manchester that addresses public safety concerns

Key stakeholders: city council, local residents and institutions nearby

Outcomes Delivered fast, effective engagement with local communities, including those reluctant to engage, culminating in a negotiated consensus report.
  • Fast and effective engagement with local communities and people who were reluctant to engage
  • Organized negotiation event with local communities and conducted surveys
  • Report on consensus


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