Urban assessment, made easy

Canvas is the cloud platform for early-stage urban planning. It generates massing inside your zoning rules and assesses every option as you draw it.

One site, in context. Canvas models the district, lights the site you are assessing, and fills it with options that already obey the rules.

  • Green space
  • Residential
  • Business

Set the rules. Canvas draws the options.

Enter the zoning limits once. Every generated volume respects them, and every change is assessed as you make it.

Max floor area ratio
3.2
Site coverage
45 %
Max height
72 m
Green area
2,581 m²
Generate

From a site to an assessed plan in three moves

A city model with one empty site lit and its maximum buildable envelope outlined
The same site filled with generated building volumes inside its envelope
A shadow study of the generated buildings, with the sun path and cast shadows traced

Set requirements

Upload the zoning rules, GIS data and documents. Canvas converts them for use in the model.

Generate

The massing model proposes volumes that already satisfy the rules, or starts from your own floor plans.

Assess

Shadow, wind, noise, mobility, resources and economics are reported as the plan changes, with permit documents ready to export.

Two cities, planned in Canvas

Petaling Jaya Malaysia, precinct digital twin

Neurba Canvas gave urban planners and decision-makers in Petaling Jaya a data-driven view of traffic flow, urban mobility and the economic outcomes of redevelopment.

Read the case study
North Melbourne Australia, City North precinct

In Melbourne's City North precinct, Canvas combined the constructed, regulatory and natural landscapes in 3D and filled the permitted building envelope with automatically generated models.

Read the case study

Seven lenses on every option

  1. ShadowOvershadowing of streets, parks and neighbours through the year.
  2. WindComfort at ground level around the new volumes.
  3. ResourcesEnergy and water demand of the plan as drawn.
  4. NoiseExposure from roads and rail across the site.
  5. MobilityAccess, parking and micromobility capacity.
  6. EconomicsAssessed investment and yield per land use.
  7. PermitCompliance against the local code, exported as a report.
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