Practice
CoPlanAI is a Helsinki-based company that runs collaborative planning for cities. Residents imagine and evaluate, planners turn that into design, and AI-supported tools help in between.coplanai.com · Nov 2026
SPIN Unit is an urban research and innovation group based in Helsinki and Tallinn. It carries out research for cities, ministries and development projects, and builds methods for decisions on hard urban problems.spinunit.org · Nov 2026
UrbanistAI was a generative AI platform for participatory planning and co-design. It let residents and stakeholders turn photographs of urban spaces into shared visual proposals. Its work continues as CoPlanAI.urbanistai.com · archived May 2024
Demos Helsinki is a non-profit, independent think tank founded in 2005 and headquartered in Finland. It does research, creates policy tools and builds capacity for societal transitions, with governments, civil society and companies.demoshelsinki.fi · Nov 2026
Terreform is a non-profit urban research studio and advocacy group founded by Michael Sorkin in New York in 2005. It studies the forms, policies and practices of equitable, sustainable cities, and publishes through its imprint UR (Urban Research).terreform.info · archived Jul 2026
POSTOPIA is a research and implementation think-tank started by Alberto Foyo and Nuria Prieto. Architects, urban planners, designers and engineers from different countries work together on each project. The latest posts on its site date from 2018.postopia2.wordpress.com · Nov 2026
The Spatial Ethnography Lab was an initiative of Terreform, co-founded by anthropologist Vyjayanthi V. Rao and designer and urban planner Vineet Diwadkar. It connected local ethnographic research with data visualisation and landscape ecology, with projects in Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and the Nile River Delta.se-l.net · archived Jan 2019
Academy
Tampere University is a multidisciplinary, foundation-based university in Finland, created in 2019 by merging the University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology. Its priority areas are technology, health and society.tuni.fi · Nov 2026
The Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), established in 1914 in Tallinn, is Estonia's only public university for higher education in fine arts, design, architecture, media, visual studies, art history and conservation.artun.ee · Nov 2026
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, was founded in 1829. A private university since 1994, owned by a foundation, it works on research, education and innovation for a sustainable world.chalmers.se · Nov 2026
Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), founded in 1918, is Estonia's only technical university. It is a research-based university for engineering, natural sciences, IT, business and maritime studies.taltech.ee · Nov 2026
Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) was established in 1960 to train engineers for the capital's industry. It has about 26,800 students and entered China's national "Double First-Class" initiative in 2017.english.bjut.edu.cn · Nov 2026
Nokia Bell Labs is the research arm of Nokia, with a hundred-year history going back to the Bell Telephone System. Its research covers quantum technology, artificial intelligence, sensing and space communication.nokia.com · Nov 2026
Sapienza University of Rome was founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII. It is a research university covering all academic areas, with its main campus near Termini station.uniroma1.it · Nov 2026
Advisory, Review & Service
Politecnico di Torino is a technical university in Turin. It began in 1859 as a school for engineers and today trains engineers, architects, designers and urban planners.polito.it · Nov 2026
The London Assembly is the elected body at City Hall that holds the Mayor of London to account. Its Planning and Regeneration Committee held a session on how AI is being used in planning in London on 1 October 2026.london.gov.uk · Nov 2026
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. It proposes new laws and policies, monitors their implementation, manages the EU budget and allocates funding.commission.europa.eu · Nov 2026
Urban AI is a Paris-based think tank on urban artificial intelligence, founded by Hubert Beroche in 2021. It works through research, events and education, with a community of researchers, public officials and start-ups.urbanai.fr · Nov 2026
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) supports scientific research in all academic disciplines on a government mandate. Established in 1952 as a private foundation, it evaluates proposals and awards public research money.snf.ch · Nov 2026
InnovateUS gives public servants free courses, workshops and coaching on data, digital, innovation and AI skills. It is run by a team at The Governance Lab (GovLab).innovate-us.org · Nov 2026
AI Imaginaries is a research project at the Royal Danish Academy on generative AI, the green transition and participatory urban development. It is led by Anders Hermund and Gustavo Ribeiro.royaldanishacademy.com · Nov 2026
BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal from BMC, on Springer Nature Link. It publishes research on all aspects of public health, including social determinants of health and the impact of health policies.bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com · Nov 2026
Routledge is a global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in the humanities and social sciences. Founded in 1836, it is part of the Taylor & Francis Group.routledge.com · Nov 2026
City Destinations Alliance (CityDNA), called European Cities Marketing until 2022, is the European alliance of tourist boards, convention bureaux and destination management organisations. Its members share knowledge on a sustainable, inclusive visitor economy.citydestinationsalliance.eu · Nov 2026
The European Capital of Innovation Awards are an annual EU prize for the European cities that best promote innovation in their communities. The European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency manages them.eic.ec.europa.eu · Nov 2026
LINA is a European platform connecting museums, universities, foundations and other institutions with emerging practitioners in architecture and spatial culture. It is coordinated by the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Architecture and co-financed by Creative Europe from 2022 to 2029.lina.community · Nov 2026
Territorio is a quarterly journal of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano, published by FrancoAngeli. It covers urban transformation, architecture and urban planning.francoangeli.it · Nov 2026