Plan sustainable urban growth with PIVOT
PIVOT is a web-based, participatory decision-support platform that helps cities explore population-growth scenarios, climate migration, and hazard exposure. Practitioners and community members can inspect multi-source city data, compare with peer regions, and co-design building-placement plans that surface trade-offs and opportunities.
Coverage: United States, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
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What you can do with PIVOT
City-scale explorer
View current conditions (demographics, housing, tree canopy) and climate stressors (heat, flood, precipitation).
Scenario planning
Test status-quo vs. targeted strategies (e.g., reduce hazard exposure, expand tree cover, mitigate gentrification).
Participatory inputs
Community feedback and practitioner priorities inform where and how development is placed.
Transparent data
Fuses building-footprints with census & municipal records; shows methods and provenance inline.
Data
PIVOT combines open data and partner datasets. All layers list provenance, spatial resolution, and version dates so practitioners can validate and reproduce analyses.
Building footprints
- High-resolution imagery & QA/QC
- Updated regularly
- Parcel & zoning joins
Population & housing
- Census/ACS indicators
- Income, tenure, demographics
- Peer-region comparisons
Climate hazards
- Projected heat & precipitation
- Flood risk surfaces
- Extreme-events context
Urban form & nature
- Tree canopy & heat islands
- Transit & amenities
- Vacancy and redevelopment
Developers & Partners
Overview video
Get in touch
Interested in piloting PIVOT, contributing data, or co-designing features? We’d love to talk.