The Better Plan is an interactive urban planning tool that combines climate, population, and other socioeconomic data with Generative AI to provide actionable recommendations for sustainable cities.
Checkout the website : The Better Plan
Note for Hackathon Demo: Currently, the app uses data of Japan only.
- Climate Risk: Temperature, precipitation, and runoff from ERA5.
- Urban Vulnerability: Population density and electricity access (NASA SDG 7.1.1).
- AI Planner: Gemini AI provides context-aware, location-specific interventions.
- Interactive Maps: Click to assess urban heat, drought, flood, and energy poverty risks.
- ERA5 (Copernicus) – climate variables
- WorldPop – population density
- NASA SDG 7.1.1 – electricity access
- Load datasets and visualize as interactive heatmaps.
- Click a location → sample climate, population, electricity data.
- Risk detection: Urban Heat Island, Drought, Flood, Energy Poverty.
- AI generates actionable recommendations for city planners.
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