Problem

• We are urban inhabitants.

• We are disconnected from each other.

• We are unaware of the urban services and opportunities that might exist.

• We want to fully leverage the spaces of the city.

Opportunity

• We want to create linkages in the following ways:

• Person to Person

• Person to Business / Organization

• Business to Business / Organization

• We want to educate the public as to the potentials present in our city.

• We want to unlock the spatial potentials in cities to allow for a more complete utilization of our built assets over time.

Strategy (Part 1)

• Aggregate user and population data to show occupation of the city over the course of any given day.

• Map anonymized user data to show intensity over the course of the day.

• Map business and public spaces in the city on top of activity data.

• Code spaces with operational hours and contact information.

• Allow people to search either open business and/or available spaces.

Strategy (Part 2)

• Create platform on which businesses can offer available spaces that can be occupied by the community during non-operational hours.

• Tie in database of space characteristics and restrictions

• Logins for both businesses/organizations and users.

• Reputation system for both businesses and users.

• Broker transactions for businesses.

Strategy (Part 3)

• Create social profiles for individuals to allow for controlled communications between users.

• Leverage existing social networks.

Approach

• Create a beautiful web portal to help educate the public about the possibilities.

• Build back end that collects both dynamic population data and static business data.

• Using data sources from:

• http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/index.htm

• http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/Home.aspx

• http://canadiangis.com/data.php

• http://hub.urbanopus.net/data/dataset

• https://developer.translink.ca/

• Public APIs and data sources:

• Private APIs and data sources:

• User generated data:

• Phone location (X, Y, Z)

• Space/activity preferences

• Anonymized location history

• Generate graphical representation of data along with visualisation of potentials.

• Include 5-minute walking radius (400m) of resource.

• Overlay transit routing around resource.

.Benefits to User

• Awareness of spatial potentials in the city.

• Connections to businesses and other individuals.

• Intensification of uses in and around the city.

• More stuff to do, more opportunities to do it - individually and organizationally.

Benefits to Business

• Monetize or barter unused spaces over the course of the day.

• Build potential client base through business exposure.

• Connect to other businesses and organizations.

Benefits to Community

• More intensive use of spaces, more active urban environments.

• Greater availability of space/time slots and decreased costs.

• More connection between citizens.

• More engagement between citizens and businesses and civic institutions.

• Better cities.