We are the Urban Places Lab (UPL) – the think tank for urban transformation of traffic and parking spaces

🔬Spun out of university research, and founded in 2024 by a consortium of visionary partners across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, our goal is to make cities more efficient, greener, and more livable.

Vision: Enabling Urban Placemaking for Livable and Sustainable Cities

🌇 Successful Urban Development:
We are building Europe’s largest database for urban transformation. Across 12 European countries, we analyze urban redevelopment projects and use the insights to create a comprehensive guide to successful urban development. Our database collects implemented measures, success factors, and potential challenges to support you in transforming your city.

🔧 Hands-On Transformation:
For us, this means turning innovative concepts into reality. Together with our partners, we focus on implementation and transform urban spaces into sustainable, people-centric environments.

💡 Cutting-Edge Research:
We combine scientific excellence with practical solutions. By studying mobility behaviors and the needs of people in urban areas, we use these insights to design cities that are sustainable and future-ready.

🌍 Connect. Create. Transform.
We bring together the right minds by connecting visionaries from business, politics, and academia. Our platform sparks new ideas, creates synergies, and gets projects moving that will sustainably transform our cities.

📣 A Powerful Voice for Urban Innovation:
We engage science, practice, and society in meaningful dialogue. Our publications and media formats simplify complex topics and foster public discussion on sustainable urban development and mobility.

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