About UrbanFootprint

We deliver Urban Intelligence that empowers those who build our world to design a more efficient, equitable, and resilient future.

We believe that organizations equipped with the best data and latest tools make more sound decisions. Accelerating climate change, deepening social inequities, and the profound, disparate impacts of the COVID-19 crisis have all laid bare the inadequacy of current systems to provide decision makers with the clear and honest information they need to drive effective and equitable decisions.

UrbanFootprint’s mission is to close this gap. We serve governments, enterprises, and other stakeholders with comprehensive, granular, and context-rich data about the urban and natural landscape, paired with highly targeted insights that map and measure risk and opportunity, to prioritize investments and resources where they’re needed most.

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Our Vision

We started UrbanFootprint in 2015 to provide urban planners and designers with the industry’s first web-based software platform — serving curated urban, environmental, and economic data to urban practitioners and equipping them with the analytic capabilities to plan and improve communities faster, better, and at lower cost.

Hundreds of planning and design organizations use UrbanFootprint today, and it’s taught in classrooms of top universities to empower the next generation of urban innovators.

But it’s not just cities and urban planners that need access to data and insights about people and places.

In this age of data primacy, Urban Intelligence has rapidly become critical to the missions of businesses and institutions across broad sectors of the economy:

Energy providers grapple with where to invest in infrastructure to address climate risk and community vulnerability
Mobility companies are challenged with changing demographics, regulations, and market opportunities
Investors and insurers require clear and precise signals about risk and community resilience through climate threats and dynamic urban, mobility, and economic trends
All levels of government struggle to distribute limited food, housing, and economic resources to those who need it most

UrbanFootprint serves clear answers to these complex challenges.

Our Technology

Today we are proud to serve the world’s first and only Urban Intelligence Platform to a broad range of public and private sector organizations taking on some of the most important challenges of the 21st century.

UrbanFootprint’s best-in-class, cloud-native software is powered by fresh, well-curated, and enriched datasets and a unique standardized canvas of the American urban landscape. Our sector-specific Data Insights subscriptions help governments, investors, energy providers, mobility companies, and other service providers find meaningful signals through a noisy data landscape to make better and ultimately more sustainable decisions that benefit bottom lines and our communities.

Peter Calthorpe

Joe DiStefano, CEO

Our Founders

UrbanFootprint was founded by two acclaimed industry professionals with over 30 years of experience working across the urban planning, energy, land development, and public policy fields.

Against this backdrop of extensive industry involvement, they developed tools, technology and strategies that would eventually become UrbanFootprint.

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