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aREAL® Adopted by City of Hanau, Germany for Urban Digitalization and Sustainable Housing

Implementation Date

January 1, 2019

By

City of Hanau

City

Hanau

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Description

In 2019, the City of Hanau, Germany, implemented the aREAL® platform as part of its urban development strategy, digitalizing its entire inner city. Using the aREAL® software and iPad App, Hanau identified 63 development areas across 17 hectares, optimizing the urban planning process.
The platform's advanced data management and visualization tools helped streamline land use planning, improve data accuracy, and integrate multiple data sources for better decision-making. As a result, Hanau achieved higher planning precision, better coordination, and enhanced communication with stakeholders. The digital platform also supported more transparent, data-driven decision-making aligned with sustainability goals.
Hanau’s adoption of aREAL® serves as a model for cities looking to leverage technology for smarter, more resilient urban development.

Impact & Result

  • The platform enabled the construction of 600 apartments without the need to use new land, promoting urban infill and reducing urban sprawl.
  • By digitalizing urban planning, the platform helps optimize land use and resource allocation, reducing waste and promoting sustainability.
  • By identifying unused or underutilized areas for development, the city maximized the potential of existing urban space, reducing the cost of acquiring new land for housing projects.

Solution Spotlight

aREAL® is a platform that combines all these different data sources. It digitises the entire process of recording, digitising, qualifying and activating inner-city development potential such as vacancies, brownfield sites, unused areas, redensification areas and potential for expansion. aREAL® enables map-based presentation of development potential from a variety of data sources and formats of a municipality. By activating these inner-city areas, it helps to reduce land considerably.

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