Services
PLACE LOGIC uses advanced digital spatial analysis to support strategic urban planning, enhance the quality of the place, and to create long-term value by unlocking the potential for higher sales premiums.
By combining rigorous spatial analysis with in-depth expertise in urban design and planning, PLACE LOGIC interprets data and helps explore alternative scenarios for more informed and sustainable decision-making. PLACE LOGIC measures street network connectivity, evaluate walkability – including pedestrian accessibility and place quality – and identifies character areas for design coding. These insights inform effective planning and development strategies.
Connectivity analysis
PLACE LOGIC uses digital analysis to identify the best-connected places in an urban network where businesses and shops are most likely to thrive.
Walkability analysis
Walkable neighbourhoods in an urban area are essential to encourage healthier, happier lives where everyday needs can be met in full. PLACE LOGIC spatial analysis considers both physical connectivity and the quality of the built environment to create a more sophisticated measure of the likelihood of people choosing to walk from one place to another. PLACE LOGIC’s harvesting and analysis of digital data that embraces both physical connectivity and the quality of the built environment is ground breaking and offers a powerful new tool to everyone with an interest in creating thriving new urban environments.
Identification of character areas
Identifying distinct parts of a settlement, often referred to as ‘character areas’, is a complex and time-consuming task that requires specialist expertise.
PLACE LOGIC applies an innovative methodology developed by the Urban Design Studies Unit at the University of Strathclyde to identify – through digital analysis – character areas in towns and cities using open-access data, looking at hundreds of characteristics of urban form at the building scale, applying pattern-recognition algorithms.
Consultancy
As well as geospatial services, PLACE LOGIC offers flexible consultancy services for clients with specific research or analytical needs. Drawing on our expertise in spatial analysis and urban studies, we can address a wide range of questions related to the built environment including, for example, socioeconomic patterns, housing markets and urban density.
Whether you need bespoke analysis, scenario testing or tailored insights, we can provide rigorous, data-driven solutions to support urban planning, improve the quality of developments and guide strategic decision-making.