Urban Digital Twin and NPS-UD

In order to ensure New Zealand’s towns and cities are well-functioning urban environments that meet the changing needs of our diverse communities, the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) was announced in July 2020. It introduces a new urban planning approach along with new objectives and policies and is designed to support well-functioning cities which meet the needs of communities into the future. It requires city councils across New Zealand to make changes in their district plans to enable higher density, more housing supply, better access to public transport and overall, to ensure a more efficient and sustainable urban environment.
As you would expect, a core part of this work relates to spatial data being captured, stored, analysed, and visualised and here at Eagle Technology, we have been working with city councils across New Zealand to develop workflows to support this initiative.
These workflows allow councils to incorporate NPS-UD objectives and policies leveraging Digital Twin and Esri ArcGIS smart city planning tools.

Eagle's Omid Khazaeian has created an ArcGIS StoryMap which introduces Esri ArcGIS Urban as a new smart city planning tool and elaborates on some of its key use cases for NPS-UD in New Zealand context.
We are continuously developing and updating content related to this this exciting space and are very keen to have feedback from this community.