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id: media/geodesign-urban-digital-twins-and-futures
about:
  label: 'Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins, and Futures'
  description: >-
    Paul Cureton and Elliot Hartley's 2025 book on the tools now used to plan,
    map and design the built environment: urban digital twins, GeoBIM,
    collaborative geodesign, immersive environments and futures methods.
  tags:
    - geodesign
    - urban digital twin
    - geobim
    - planning
    - futures
book:
  authors:
    - Paul Cureton
    - Elliot Hartley
  publisher: Routledge
  year: 2025
  isbn: '9781032748610'
  url: >-
    https://www.routledge.com/Geodesign-Urban-Digital-Twins-and-Futures/Cureton-Hartley/p/book/9781032748610
domains:
  - places
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: 'Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins, and Futures - 1st Edition'
      url: >-
        https://www.routledge.com/Geodesign-Urban-Digital-Twins-and-Futures/Cureton-Hartley/p/book/9781032748610
    - title: 'Open Library: Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins, and Futures'
      url: 'https://openlibrary.org/works/OL42413607W'
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
---
Cureton and Hartley write about the built environment under pressure from urban growth and climate. GeoBIM, one of the tools covered, joins geographic data with building information models (BIM: detailed digital models of buildings). Gamification, the use of game mechanics in planning, is another. More than a hundred international projects and workflows illustrate the book. There are five case studies and a companion website. Geodesign is presented as collaborative work among the people involved in a place.

Of the recent books on urban twins, this one is written from the practice of planning and design. It is the most concerned with how a twin is used in a room with stakeholders.