CityBot

Our Twitter bot @KPFCityBot uses social media to engage people with urban design and planning concepts. This tool is both educational and enjoyable for users, a method for gamifying the design and feedback process. Users tweet at City Bot with a certain set of parameters – preferences for density, street grid type (ex. New York vs. London?) and amount of open space – and our listener runs an analysis. An image of that city is produced and then Tweeted back at the user, along with a series of performance metrics.