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
Founding 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 should be 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.