The neighborhood scoring engine planners can defend in committee.
Drop a pin anywhere on Earth. In about 30 seconds Urban Pulse returns a defensible score across 10 indicators — 15-minute reach, heat, air, noise, flood, mobility, housing — with a published citation behind every number and a versioned PDF you can hand to a planning committee.
Live demo needs no login · Workspace access restricted to @urbancat.co staff.
Ship a council-ready PDF, not a spreadsheet.
Defend a site selection with cited evidence.
Quantify €/year value at stake per scheme.
Av. Almirante Reis · Lisbon
38.7298, -9.1340· walking · 15 min · 0.62 km²
Across 8,680 residents in reach.
Sensitivity (±20% per driver)
Order-of-magnitude annualized value derived from peer-reviewed coefficients (WHO HEAT, EEA shadow price, ITF/UITP, Litman). Bands reflect coefficient uncertainty, not site-specific calibration. Replace coefficients with local elasticities for client-grade work.
Lifestyle outpaces essentials
balanceELR 78.00 — lifestyle POIs dominate; classic displacement signal.
Action: Protect remaining essentials with right-of-first-refusal leases and inclusionary zoning.
cite: jacobs1961
Rule-based synthesis of ELR, Moreno, Vitality, SDG 11, framework parity, and peer benchmark signals. Thresholds traceable in /methodology.
Same components as /audit. Frozen Avenida snapshot — math runs client-side, no server calls.
Pin to council-ready PDF in three clicks
Pick any street, parcel or proposed scheme. Choose walking, cycling, transit or driving — and a time budget.
Live OSM, GTFS, NASA POWER, OpenAQ, Copernicus and Eurostat are joined into 10 risk indicators against your isochrone.
Edit the executive summary, pick layout & length, hand the methodology-stamped report to your committee.
Ten risk drivers, one defensible €-band
Walk, cycle, transit & drive reach with Moreno's six daily-life categories — every score traceable to source.
Heat-island anomaly, PM₂.₅ / NO₂ overshoot vs WHO 2021 AQGs, Lden noise, pluvial flood loss.
Active / transit / car split vs EU SUMP target, plus a walkability + canopy + façade composite.
Rent-to-income overshoot vs Eurostat HCO 40% threshold, with displacement risk per 100k residents.
NASA POWER for climate, OpenAQ v3 for air, OSM + GTFS for reach — refreshed every audit, cached for speed.
Tiptap-edited executive summary, layout & length toggles, methodology version stamp on every footer.
Faster than a consultancy. More defensible than a dashboard.
| Capability | Urban Pulse | Consultancy report | GIS dashboard (ArcGIS, CARTO) | Single-issue tool (WalkScore, Climate-X) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first score | ≈ 30 seconds | 4–8 weeks | Hours of GIS work | Minutes |
| Coverage | Anywhere on Earth | Per project scope | Your loaded layers | Single dimension |
| Citations on every number | Yes | Partial | No | Partial |
| Methodology versioning | Yes | No | No | No |
| 10-indicator risk model | Yes | Partial | No | No |
| €/year value-at-stake band | Yes | Partial | No | No |
| Council-ready PDF export | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| What-if intervention modelling | Yes | Partial | No | No |
| Marginal cost per audit | ≈ €0 | €10k–€80k | Analyst time | Subscription seat |
yes = built-in · partial = possible with extra work · no = not in scope.
Defensible by design
Urban Pulse never invents a number. Every indicator points to a published source — WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines, EEA Air Quality reports, Eurostat SILC, Munich Re NatCat, JRC LISFLOOD, UN-Habitat SDG 11, INRIX & EU SUMP. Methodology changes are version-stamped so old audits stay reproducible.
Each metric carries a footnote popover with its source paper, year and threshold.
Re-run a 2024 audit under the latest methodology and see exactly what changed.
Plain-English mode, layout / variant toggles, methodology + bibliography baked in.
Score the next neighborhood on your desk.
Try the live demo — no login, three frozen real-world scenarios. Or sign in with your UrbanCat account to score anywhere on Earth.