NIKA use case
NIKA for Urban planning
Make zoning, housing, and transit decisions that survive council and public scrutiny.
For city planners and analysts — test zoning, housing, and transit changes with real evidence.
Zoshua Colah / UnsplashThe challenge
Everything you need exists — just not in one place.
Planning decisions have to survive council and public scrutiny, but the evidence — parcels, zoning, transit, demographics — lives in disconnected systems and static maps.
What NIKA does
How NIKA helps urban planning teams.
Test zoning changes
Find parcels to upzone near transit with low displacement risk.
Measure access
Quantify 15-minute access to schools, parks, and groceries by neighborhood.
Balance growth
Map where new housing fits without losing tree canopy or overloading services.
Products that power this
From the old way to the NIKA workflow.
Planning decisions have to survive council and public scrutiny, but the evidence — parcels, zoning, transit, demographics — lives in disconnected systems and static maps.
- 8 data sources that don’t talk to each other
- Analysts stitch it together by hand — days per question
- Often stale by the time the answer lands
- Connect the systemsNIKA GeoGraphifyExplore GeoGraphify
Index parcels, zoning, transit, and demographics into one answerable layer.
- Test the scenarioNIKA AnalystExplore Analyst
Test upzoning, 15-minute access, and growth with low-displacement evidence.
Plans that hold up to public and council scrutiny.
How it works
From your data to a decision.
- Step 1
Connect your data
Files, folders, and the platforms your team already pays for.
- Step 2
Ask in plain language
No query language, no technical expertise — just the question.
- Step 3
NIKA reasons across location
It reads, searches, and runs the analysis grounded in real coordinates.
- Step 4
Get the decision
A report, map, or answer you can act on and share.
Data connectors NIKA uses
NIKA plugs into the platforms urban planning teams already pay for, then reasons across them in one place.
- Esri ArcGIS
- Regrid
- Replica
- UrbanFootprint
- Remix transit
- Census / ACS
- Zoneomics
- City open-data portals
What you can ask NIKA
- Find parcels to upzone near transit with low displacement risk.
- Measure 15-minute access to schools, parks, and groceries by neighborhood.
- Map where new housing fits without losing tree canopy.
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