Informative city modeling and augmented reality: the City Augmented Reality for the Environment-CAREproject

The phenomena triggered by the relationship between planning processes and new technologies are capable, among other things, of enabling new experiential modes capable of creating alternative levels of knowledge of the city to the traditional ones. In particular, information digitization processes, necessary for the development of the city information model, better known as Urban Digital Twin (UDT), and Augmented Reality (AR) tools represent an innovative resource at the service of territorial governance policies1. The pre-figurative approach, made possible by the fruition of the UDT through the visualization tools of Augmented Reality, will allow all the stakeholders of the planning processes (planners, decision-makers and citizens) to share the outcomes of these processes, throughout the entire planning process, making possible a new collaborative process for the co-creation of new urban assets.