urban-design-skills

Plugin urban-design-skills in Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 1 month ago.

Skills (18)

• block-and-density

  Design urban blocks and optimize density using typological analysis, FAR calculations, and building configuration strategies. Use when the user asks about block dimensions, block layout, density calculations, FAR optimization, building footprint coverage, height-density relationships, block typologi

• climate-responsive-design

  Apply climate-specific urban design strategies for hot-arid, tropical, temperate, and cold climates. Covers building orientation, street alignment, shading strategies, wind management, vegetation selection, urban heat island mitigation, stormwater management, and thermal comfort in outdoor spaces. U

• cost-estimation

  Estimate construction costs, infrastructure costs, soft costs, and total development costs for urban design projects. Covers building construction cost per m2 by typology, infrastructure cost per linear meter and per dwelling, site preparation, landscaping, professional fees, and financial feasibili

• design-brief

  Generate professional urban design briefs, design reports, and project documentation. Produces structured documents with vision statements, design principles, spatial requirements, performance targets, and implementation guidelines. Use when the user asks to write a design brief, create a project br

• design-evaluation

  Evaluate urban designs against comprehensive criteria drawn from all major global standards, certification systems, and theoretical frameworks. Generates detailed scorecards and improvement recommendations. Use when the user asks to evaluate a design, review a masterplan, score a proposal, critique

• masterplan-design

  Generate complete urban masterplans with spatial structure, land use distribution, street network, block layout, density strategy, phasing plan, and implementation framework. Use when the user asks to design a masterplan, create an urban layout, develop a neighborhood plan, design a district, plan a

• mixed-use-programming

  Develop land use programs and optimize the mix of uses for urban districts, neighborhoods, and individual buildings. Use when the user asks about land use programming, use mix ratios, program distribution, retail sizing, office space requirements, residential-commercial balance, anchor tenant strate

• mobility-and-transport

  Comprehensive mobility and transport planning for urban design including trip generation, mode split targets, street network connectivity, transit planning, cycling network design, pedestrian accessibility, freight and servicing strategy, parking demand management, and traffic impact assessment. Use

• precedent-study

  Research and analyze urban design precedents systematically. Generates structured case study reports with quantitative metrics, design principles, lessons learned, and transferability assessment. Use when the user asks for precedents, case studies, reference projects, comparable developments, benchm

• public-space-design

  Design parks, plazas, waterfronts, pocket parks, civic spaces, playgrounds, and urban gardens using Jan Gehl quality criteria, PPS placemaking methodology, and global best practices. Use when the user asks to design a park, create a plaza, plan a waterfront, design a civic space, lay out a playgroun

• site-analysis

  Conduct comprehensive multi-scale site analysis from regional to neighborhood to site scale. Generates structured analysis reports covering physical context, infrastructure, demographics, environmental conditions, regulatory framework, and design opportunities and constraints. Use when the user asks

• street-design

  Design complete streets with proper cross-sections, lane allocation, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, intersection design, and streetscape elements using NACTO and global standards. Use when the user asks to design a street, create a cross-section, determine road width, design an intersection,

• sustainability-scoring

  Score urban designs against LEED-ND, BREEAM Communities, WELL Community Standard, Green Star Communities, CASBEE Urban Development, and Estidama Pearl Community Rating System. Generates detailed scoring reports with credit-by-credit analysis, achievability assessment, and optimization recommendation

• tod-design

  Design transit-oriented developments using ITDP TOD Standard, global best practices, and density-distance gradient principles. Use when the user asks to design around a transit station, create a TOD plan, optimize development near transit, plan a transit district, design a station area, or develop a

• urban-calculator

  Python computational tools for urban design metric calculations including density, FAR, walkability scoring, parking requirements, green space analysis, and block optimization. Use when the user asks to calculate density, compute FAR, score walkability, determine parking requirements, analyze green

• urban-design-foundations

  Comprehensive urban design knowledge base containing theories, principles, quantitative standards, and rules of thumb from 40+ theorists and global frameworks. Provides foundational knowledge for all urban design tasks including masterplanning, site analysis, street design, public space design, dens

• urban-regeneration

  Urban regeneration, brownfield redevelopment, heritage-led renewal, and neighborhood revitalization strategies. Covers site remediation assessment, adaptive reuse frameworks, catalyst project design, gentrification risk management, community engagement methodology, incremental urbanism, and phased d

• zoning-and-codes

  Analyze zoning regulations and generate form-based codes, including Euclidean zoning analysis, performance zoning parameters, transect-based coding, building envelope controls, and development standard specification. Use when the user asks about zoning, building codes, development standards, setback

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