We use a small, fixed vocabulary so council officers, mayors, residents and analysts can read the same report and walk away with the same meaning. If a term in the workspace or a PDF isn't defined here, it's a bug — please flag it.
How many of life's six daily needs (living, working, shopping, care, learning, enjoying) you can reach on foot in 15 minutes.
Why it mattersHigher means residents walk for daily life instead of driving.
The catchment we score — the shape on the map drawn around your pin.
Mayor / Planner / Analyst — same numbers, different depth. Mayor shows the headline, Analyst shows every sub-input.
An estimate of how many deaths a year are linked to this hazard, expressed per 100,000 residents so it's comparable across cities.
How visually engaging the building fronts are at street level — active frontages keep streets lively and safer.
How much we trust this audit's numbers, based on data coverage (POIs, transit, parks, population) and any human overrides applied.
How well a neighborhood balances everyday essentials (groceries, clinics, schools) against lifestyle amenities (cafés, bars, gyms).
Why it mattersToo few essentials means residents drive for milk; too few lifestyle places means the area is a commuter dormitory.
Average outdoor noise across a 24-hour day, with extra weight on evening and night hours, measured in decibels.
Why it mattersWHO advises road-traffic Lden stays at or below 53 dB.
Open the formulaEU sustainable-mobility planning sets an indicative ceiling of 40% of trips made by car.
The EU's flagship household survey on income, poverty and housing costs — used here to benchmark rent-to-income ratios.
The EU's official noise-mapping method used for strategic noise maps under the Environmental Noise Directive.
The EU's standard sub-national geography (roughly: a province or county).
How much hotter the surface here gets, on a summer day, compared to the wider city.
Open the formulaAverage extra minutes a car trip takes here compared to a free-flowing baseline.
Tiny airborne particles (≤2.5 µm) that lodge deep in the lungs. WHO 2021 advises an annual average of 5 µg/m³ or less.
The European Commission's global gridded settlement-and-population dataset.
How much vegetation (trees, parks, swales) softens a downpour by absorbing rain before it reaches the drains.
The share of ground covered by roofs, roads and pavements — water can't soak in, which raises flood risk.
Nights when the temperature stays above 20 °C — bad for sleep, recovery and the elderly.
Where this neighborhood ranks against a panel of structurally similar cities (0 = bottom, 100 = top).
Open the formulaA 1–5 score for how comfortable, safe and varied it is to walk these streets.
‘Live’ pulls real measurements (Sentinel, OpenAQ); ‘Estimate’ uses a deterministic model when live data isn't available for this AOI.
Whether this audit was scored under the current methodology version or an older one. Stale audits can be re-run from /portfolio.
A 0–100 score of how evenly different types of places are mixed along the street.
The annual public-cost band — health, lost time, climate damage — that today's neighborhood configuration is generating, with a low / central / high range to be honest about uncertainty.
Open the formulaAverage outdoor noise during night hours (23:00–07:00), measured in decibels.
Why it mattersAbove 45 dB Lnight, sleep disturbance starts to rise.
Traffic-related gas linked to asthma and cardiovascular disease. WHO 2021 advises an annual average of 10 µg/m³ or less.
A named planning move (protected bike lane, bus priority, tree canopy…) drawn from the catalog, each with cost, lead time and expected score change.
The shape on the map showing everywhere you can get to within X minutes by foot, bike or transit.
Households spending more than 40% of income on rent and utilities (Eurostat threshold).
Why it mattersA standard EU indicator of displacement risk.
Open the formulaA 0–100 composite of how well the neighborhood absorbs shocks (heat, flood, noise, displacement).
Estimated share of residents who report being highly annoyed by traffic noise.
What fraction of all daily trips in the catchment are taken by private car.
How varied and lively the street life is, measured by mix of uses, density and small-block grain (after Jane Jacobs, 1961).
A signed URL that lets a non-staff person open this audit's report for a set window. Revoke any time.
The share of the street that's shaded by tree canopy in summer — direct relief from heat.
A live preview that shifts a few human-tunable levers (rent mix, green cover, acoustic retrofit) and re-scores instantly.
WHO Europe (2018) advises road-traffic Lden no higher than 53 dB to protect health.
