Generative design pipeline for urban and neighborhood planning

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to generate design options for an urban design project by performing the steps of:

• generating a first geometrical mesh for a first candidate design based on a first design criterion associated with a first region of land;
• subdividing the first geometrical mesh to generate a first plurality of neighborhoods;
• populating the first plurality of neighborhoods with a first set of dwelling units;
• generating a first metric for the first candidate design based on a first objective function;
• modifying the first candidate design based on the first metric to generate a first design option;
• and
• determining that a second metric generated for the first design option based on the first objective function exceeds the first metric, indicating that the first design option is a higher ranked design than the first candidate design.

A system, comprising:

• a memory storing an urban design pipeline;
• and
• a processor that, when executing the urban design pipeline, is configured to perform the steps of:
• generating a first geometrical mesh for a first candidate design based on a first design criterion associated with a first region of land,
• subdividing the first geometrical mesh to generate a first plurality of neighborhoods,
• populating the first plurality of neighborhoods with a first set of dwelling units,
• generating a first metric for the first candidate design based on a first objective function,
• modifying the first candidate design based on the first metric to generate a first design option, and
• determining that a second metric generated for the first design option based on the first objective function exceeds the first metric, indicating that the first design option is a higher ranked design than the first candidate design.