The document introduces a participatory urban planning platform created by the SoftGIS Team at Aalto University's Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. The platform allows residents to provide feedback and input on their community through questionnaires, suggestion forms, and visualizing other residents' feedback. It also enables residents to evaluate current planning projects. The platform is built using web technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Python. The document encourages joining the project by noting it will improve lives, allow developing GIS and data analysis skills, and provide career opportunities while working with a diverse team.

1. Participatory Urban Planning, community
service platform
Cristian Micliuc
Centre for Urban and Regional Studies
Aalto University

2. Who are we?
SoftGIS Team
Center of Urban and Regional Studies @ Aalto
•Placed based studies of inhabitant’s experiences
•11 Finnish cities and over 9000 respondents
•Technology Innovation Award for Web GIS at the 2011
Geospatial World Forum
•International partners in Japan and Australia

3. Why are we here?
Customizable platform for participatory urban planning
•Web based platform
•Many Services (web sites)
•Configurable widgets
•Good usability!!

4. Why are we here?
Järvenpää
1.Current experience questionnaire
2.Habitation improvement suggestions
3.Visualization of other residents’ feedback
4.Evaluate current planning projects

5. Technologies
• Web development
 HTML
 CSS
 Javascript
• Python
Appreciated but not required
• GIS
• Django (geoDjango)

6. Come and join our project
• Your work will improve people’s lives
• GIS are used in a broad area of domains
• Develop your abilities to visualize, analyze data and a
lot more!
• Work with a multidisciplinary and multicultural team
• Career opportunities

7. Thank you!