• Policy recommendations
  • Collaborative urban planning
  • Local Action in Cēsis, Latvia
  • Local Action in Gävle, Sweden
  • Local Action in Helsinki, Finland
  • Local Action in Tallinn, Estonia
  • Local Action in Viimsi, Estonia
  • Design Studios to engage students in solving urban challenges
  • Integrated urban plans
  • Resilience
  • The Matrix of Indicators: Process and Results
  • Urban resilience and the coronavirus pandemic
  • The bearable lightness of urban change trajectories
  • Cities in (climate) change – Design methods as a tool for sustainable urban planning
  • How data helps to understand resilience
  • The value of city trees
  • Community gardening and resilience in Tallinn
  • Riga planning region: Resilience by the river
  • XR in action
  • Augmenting urban planning and management
  • Speculations on the integrated use of extended reality in urban planning
  • What can VR do for Stockholm? Reflections on developing a VR prototype
  • Field notes on piecing together a data-driven decision-making platform
  • Gallery of XR examples

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Augmented Urbans — Extending the urban planning practices

This online book compiles the insights, perspectives and practical examples gained and produced during Augmented Urbans, a three-year collaborative process to explore the potential in extended reality (XR) technologies for integrated planning actions targeting urban resilience.

  • Policy recommendations
  • Collaborative urban planning
  • Local Action in Cēsis, Latvia
  • Local Action in Gävle, Sweden
  • Local Action in Helsinki, Finland
  • Local Action in Tallinn, Estonia
  • Local Action in Viimsi, Estonia
  • Design Studios to engage students in solving urban challenges
  • Integrated urban plans
  • Resilience
  • The Matrix of Indicators: Process and Results
  • Urban resilience and the coronavirus pandemic
  • The bearable lightness of urban change trajectories
  • Cities in (climate) change – Design methods as a tool for sustainable urban planning
  • How data helps to understand resilience
  • The value of city trees
  • Community gardening and resilience in Tallinn
  • Riga planning region: Resilience by the river
  • XR in action
  • Augmenting urban planning and management
  • Speculations on the integrated use of extended reality in urban planning
  • What can VR do for Stockholm? Reflections on developing a VR prototype
  • Field notes on piecing together a data-driven decision-making platform
  • Gallery of XR examples
Augmented Urbans

© Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Tallinn University, City of Helsinki, City of Tallinn, Gavlegårdarna, Municipality of Cesis, Municipality of Viimsi, Riga Planning Region, University of Gävle, Stockholm Resilience Centre, and KOD Architects

Publisher: Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Editors: Anni Müüripeal, Piret Vacht, Päivi Keränen, Helen Sooväli-Sepping

Editorial advisory board: Juha Ainoa, Jalmari Sarla, Gunita Kulikovska, Evija Taurene

Visual design: Jalmari Sarla

WordPress implementation: Jukka Isokoski

English language editing: Robin Maylett

The Augmented Urbans online publication was produced as part of the project ’Augmented Urbans – Visionary, Participatory Planning and Integrated Management for Resilient Cities’ funded by the Central Baltic Interreg Programme with the European Regional Development Fund.