What is Digital Blue Foam?

Name: Digital Blue Foam
Brand: Digital Blue Foam
SKU: DBF-001
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Digital Blue Foam is an AI-powered software for generative design and spatial analytics, helping architects and planners create sustainable buildings and cities.

15 Minute City

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15 Minute City

Enable vibrant, walkable neighborhoods with AI: cluster essentials within 15 minutes—optimize services, density, connectivity, and social quality sustainably.

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Optimized Proximity to Services

DBF enables developers to analyze and optimize the proximity of essential services—such as work, shopping, education, and healthcare—ensuring they are clustered effectively within the neighborhood. This promotes convenience and enhances residents' quality of life.

Enhanced Fulfillment of Community Needs

Using data-driven insights to support the 15minute City framework, DBF helps clients identify gaps in service provision with insights on city and provence level down to the neighborhood level. This ensures that all aspects of daily life are adequately addressed within the neighborhood.

Strategic Clustering of Amenities

The platform supports strategic clustering of amenities, facilitating the creation of vibrant hubs where residents can access multiple services in close proximity. This clustering fosters social interaction and strengthens community ties.

Improved Density Management

DBF assists in managing density by analyzing land use patterns and optimizing space allocation in reference to the population. This ensures that neighborhoods are designed to support a high quality of life while accommodating growth sustainably.

Focus on Social Quality

By integrating social, urban, gis metrics into planning processes, DBF enhances the social quality of neighborhoods. Governments and developers can create spaces that promote interaction and engagement among residents, fostering the sense of community.

Long-Term Sustainability Planning

DBF emphasizes insights for transport planning in reference to population and amenities into environmental impacts and resource efficiency. This focus helps ensure that urban planners developments align with sustainability goals while reducing reliance on cars and promoting active transportation options.

Introduction

Introduction to 15-Minute City Planning

The 15-minute city model demands rigorous proximity analysis by ensuring residents can access key services, green spaces, employment, and mobility infrastructure within a 15-minute walk or cycle.

Leaders and urban planners need tools that validate these metrics at scale, across multiple development scenarios, before committing to a single masterplan. DBF's spatial analytics engine calculates isochrone networks, proximity scores, and amenity coverage across any site by enabling data-driven 15-minute city planning from the earliest project stages.

Why It Matters

Why 15-Minute City Planning Requires Spatial Analytics

Meeting 15-minute city targets is not a design challenge, it is a data challenge. Planners must validate access to healthcare, education, retail, green space, and transport for every resident in a development. DBF automates this validation, running proximity and accessibility calculations across multi-source datasets to score development scenarios against 15-minute city benchmarks.

Challenges

DBF Benefits

⚠ Validating amenity proximity across large, complex sites manually

⚠ Modeling pedestrian and cycling network coverage simultaneously

⚠ Balancing density with walkability targets

⚠ Comparing multiple scenarios against 15-minute city KPIs

✓ Automated isochrone and proximity analysis

✓ Multi-mode accessibility scoring (walk, cycle, transit)

✓ Amenity gap identification across development scenarios

✓ 15-minute city KPI dashboards for stakeholder reporting

How It Works (Step-by-Step)

How DBF Validates 15-Minute City Metrics

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Define site boundary and import surrounding urban context data

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Set 15-minute city targets: amenity types, access thresholds, mode splits

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Run isochrone analysis for walking, cycling, and transit networks

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Score development scenarios against proximity and coverage benchmarks

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Identify gaps in amenity provision and test infill options

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Generate KPI reports for planning authorities and stakeholders

Key Features

Key Features of the DBF Platform

Isochrone and proximity analysis engine

Multi-mode mobility network modeling

Amenity coverage scoring and gap analysis

Walkability and cyclability KPI dashboards

Scenario comparison for 15-minute city targets

GIS-integrated spatial data imports

Use Cases

Who Uses DBF for 15-Minute City Planning?

Research institutes modeling sustainable urban mobility

Engineering firms advising on smart city infrastructure

Developers seeking planning approval for mixed-use projects

Municipal planners designing walkable urban districts

Future Vision

The Future of 15-Minute City Planning Industry with DBF

As 15-minute city policies become planning requirements in cities worldwide, the ability to quantitatively validate proximity and accessibility metrics will separate successful planning applications from rejected ones. DBF makes this validation automated, auditable, and presentation-ready for planning authorities.

Frequently
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Common questions from our prospects.

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What is 15-minute city planning software?

Software that validates walkability, amenity proximity, and mobility coverage for developments targeting 15-minute city benchmarks.

How does DBF calculate 15-minute city metrics?

DBF runs isochrone network analysis, proximity scoring, and amenity gap analysis across multi-source spatial datasets for any site.

Can DBF compare multiple 15-minute city scenarios?

Yes. DBF generates and scores multiple development scenarios against 15-minute city KPIs simultaneously, enabling direct comparison.

Does DBF work for both new developments and retrofit projects?

DBF supports both greenfield and brownfield analysis, importing existing urban context data to benchmark against 15-minute city targets.

See DBF on a real site and brief.

In a short demo, you’ll generate options, compare scenarios, and walk through KPI reporting for your facility or masterplan context.

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