Geography
Kinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Urban Life AI
An AI-powered simulator for urban resilience.
The challenge
A geospatial intelligence platform for modelling climate adaptation and urban-risk management in Kinshasa.
Kinshasa faces chronic flooding, rapidly advancing erosion gullies and dense informal development. Urban Life AI models spatial spillovers to show how interventions such as drain clearance, slope reforestation or neighbourhood restructuring can protect - or affect - surrounding areas and help prioritise investment fairly.
Technology
GAT · PostGIS · Streamlit/Folium · LLM
Focus
Predictive planning · Risk management · Geospatial decision support
Our approach
Designed to become useful in practice.
From idea to lasting capability.
Develop an interactive geospatial simulation platform for neighbourhood resilience.
Train a Graph Attention Network with drainage, vegetation, flood-risk and impervious-surface variables.
Compare intervention and climate-shock scenarios through interactive maps and impact metrics.
Use an LLM decision-support module to interpret results and generate disaster-risk diagnostics.
What it enables
Knowledge that supports action.
- An operational GAT-based geospatial simulator
- Dynamic maps of resilience gains and losses
- Decision dashboards measuring secured population and spatial shield effects
- AI-generated strategic diagnostics
- A tool for prioritising resilient urban investment
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