City aerial
Urban Intelligence — City Planning

The data layer
cities are missing.

AI generative design and spatial analytics for decisions that cannot afford to be wrong.

Strategic Input
James A. Moore Managing Director, Urban Solutions 30+ Years Urban Planning ULI Full Member 25+ Years Smart Cities & Urban Regeneration

Cities are systems.
Most tools treat
them as maps.

The gap between a city plan and how a city functions is where decisions fail. DBF closes it — integrating land use, density, mobility, ecology, and environmental data into a single generative environment. Every scenario validated. Every decision defensible.

Built with input from practitioners who’ve spent careers inside that gap.

Platform
01
Generative
Masterplanning
AI generates thousands of configurations against your zoning targets. You decide.
02
Spatial
Analytics
Every system a city runs on — density, mobility, access, environment — visible in real time.
03
Scenario
Intelligence
Compress years of review cycles into hours. Move from data to decision without losing rigour.
750%
Faster delivery
Takenaka Corporation
4–1
Years compressed
Large-scale masterplan
50%
Shorter design cycles
Across the platform
Urban aerial planning view
Urban intelligence
at the planning table.

Where the data is, when the decision is made — not months later in a report.

Strategic Input
James A.
Moore
Managing Director, Urban Solutions
Experience30+ years
EducationPhD, Architecture — University of Pennsylvania
ULIFull Member, 25+ years
ExpertiseRegeneration, Smart Cities, GIS

Thirty years shaping cities as complex systems — not parcels, but interconnected environments where transportation, density, ecology, and governance interact continuously.

Moore’s applied judgment about what urban planners actually need to know, at which moment in a project, is embedded in how the DBF platform structures its analytical outputs and decision-support models.

Working on a
city-scale problem?

City planning · Master planning · Spatial analytics

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