Connect fragmented communities
Bring researchers, students, practitioners, public institutions, and open-source contributors into sustained collaboration.
About the Collective
A shared home for computational urban research.
City Computing Collective connects urban theory, spatial data, computational methods, local knowledge, and public questions.
Why this community exists
City computing is interdisciplinary. Its community should be too.
Relevant work is often fragmented across urban science, GIS, planning, computer science, AI, engineering, public health, economics, design, and local practice. The Collective creates shared pathways between those communities.
Turn conversation into artifacts
Encourage documented data, code, methods, projects, papers, tools, benchmarks, and city-facing outputs.
Be rigorous and responsible
Make assumptions, limitations, provenance, uncertainty, credit, and affected communities visible.
Governance
Principles.
Open participationAnyone acting in good faith may read, ask, share, and contribute. Participation does not require an institutional affiliation.
Transparent moderationRules, category changes, moderation practices, and major community decisions are documented.
Respect and safetyHarassment, discrimination, doxxing, spam, deceptive promotion, and misuse of private information are not accepted.
Research integrityDo not misrepresent evidence, authorship, affiliations, data rights, project status, model performance, or uncertainty.
Community ownershipContributors receive visible credit, and shared infrastructure should gradually avoid dependence on one individual.
How this site works
A website on top of public discussions.
Conversations happen in GitHub Discussions. This website shows a copy of them that is easier to browse, and adds nothing that is not already public there.
What is copiedTitle, link, category, author, activity, research themes, a few form answers such as project stage or deadline, and the text of each post and its replies as GitHub renders them, so posts can be read here. Introductions outside the People directory keep their text on GitHub only.
When it refreshesWhenever a discussion or comment changes, and every six hours. The export runs as a GitHub Action in the public repository.
People directoryIntroductions appear in the directory only when the author ticks the directory box. Otherwise only the title and link are shown.
SubscriptionsRSS for all discussions (feeds/all.xml) and for each research theme, and an iCalendar feed of events (feeds/events.ics). They refresh with the site.
Changing or removing a postEdit or delete it on GitHub. The website follows at the next refresh.
Connected platforms
Where outputs live.
The Collective is the place for discussion and collaboration. Documented outputs are released through two sibling platforms, and the research agenda sits with the lab.
Data, indicators, maps & methods
Open urban research infrastructure with documented provenance and reuse pathways.
urbanprobe.com →Models, agents & benchmarks
Registries of urban AI releases, each documented with its evaluation and failure modes.
xurbanai.com →Research agenda
The directions and approach behind the platforms.
urbanscience.ai →