Research software · Urban modeling
Worldform
Start with people. Worldform builds inspectable synthetic populations and studies how urban futures can be compared when observations are incomplete.
A population you can inspect
Worldform creates linked synthetic people and households, fits household weights to supplied age totals, and exposes the resulting records and control fit. Baselines can be saved, compared, and exported as tables or reproducible packages.
The current laboratory supports illustrative zones and controlled experiments. Agreement with supplied totals does not validate every attribute or joint distribution.
Compare change with its assumptions
The wider research engine maintains an uncertain urban state, records incoming evidence, and compares futures under declared actions. Provenance keeps the modeled world, the information available about it, and the assumptions behind a result distinguishable.
A separate scenario demonstration explores disruption, transport connections, and staged development. Its four-person fixture is separate from the population packages generated in the laboratory.
From demonstration to urban evidence
The project develops the earlier Urban World Model research program. The next test is whether data-grounded populations and behavior can support useful, calibrated comparisons in real places.
The interface shown here establishes a working population workflow. It does not establish causal policy effects or validated citywide forecasting.