ArcGIS Urban

ArcGIS Urban is a commercial urban planning application developed by the Esri R&D Center Zurich, designed to support urban planners, architects, and stakeholders in managing urban development projects, visualizing future growth, and evaluating the impact of planning decisions.

[1] The application allows users to model their city in 3D, and study plans and projects in the context of zoning and land-use regulations, as well as custom metrics such as population, energy use and fiscal implications.

On May 23, 2024, ArcGIS Urban was released as part of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3, enabling users to host the application and data on-premise instead of on the cloud.

ArcGIS Urban also has a GraphQL API, which enables users to manage all the data in the application programmatically.

[4] 3D meshes that are created from LiDAR data, drone footage and aerial imagery using ArcGIS Reality can be used in ArcGIS Urban to visualise plans and projects with a more realistic context.