Our Purpose

Your Partners in Community Engagement

City Layers turns community knowledge into place intelligence. We're a bridge between people and places, between what residents know and what gets decided.

Our Story

We started City Layers because the people who know a place best should help shape what happens to it.

City Layers began as research at TU Wien into participatory urban planning, citizen science, and spatial design, before becoming a Vienna-based platform that helps organisations understand places through community mapping and AI-supported analysis.

Our approach pairs participatory mapping with AI-supported analysis, letting people share what they know about a place directly, structured as location-specific evidence decision-makers can act on.

Our Values

Inclusive by Design

We co-develop our tools and methodology with the people who use them, residents and experts alike, so participation works for everyone, not just the technically confident.

Community First

Better decisions start with more voices, not fewer. Our approach is focused on removing barriers to participation, so that groups who would otherwise be unreachable have a voice in decisions.

Built for the Job

Capturing geo-located feedback at scale only helps if it's organised well. We rely on our own in-house tools to structure that data spatially and turn it into prioritised, actionable outcomes.

Transparency

The community and decision-makers should have real two-way communication, not a one-way submission box. We make that process visible, from input to outcome.

Low-Barrier Participation

Every voice counts, however much or little it wants to say. Dropping a quick comment on the go, or mapping an entire neighbourhood — both are possible with the same tool. Contribution takes seconds from a phone, no account or expertise needed.

The Team Behind City Layers

A founding team of architects, urban researchers, and spatial analysts who've spent years

turning community knowledge into place intelligence.

Lovro Koncar-Gamulin

Lovro Koncar-Gamulin

Project & Strategy

Sets the direction of City Layers and builds the relationships that carry it -with cities, institutions, and partners. Lovro grounds the platform in the realities of urban planning practice, making sure what we build answers the questions decision-makers actually face.
Androniki Pappa

Androniki Pappa

Research, Participation & Design

Shapes City Layers' R&D and transdisciplinary methodology, integrating expert knowledge and community insights into every layer of the product. Androniki runs the participatory work, develops the platform's interactive foundation and data dashboard, and shapes its brand and visual language.
Domagoj Krhen

Domagoj Krhen

Product & Market

Brings City Layers to the cities and organisations that need it, translating research insight into a market-ready product and compelling offer. Domagoj shapes the platform's product operations and builds the partnerships that carry it from prototype to practice.
Angelos Chronis

Angelos Chronis

Technology

Bridges technical implementation with project goals. Angelos guides the technical development of City Layers, optimises workflows, and ensures technological solutions effectively address complex urban visualisation challenges.

Want to Work With Us?

We're always looking for passionate people who want to make cities better for everyone.

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