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We are pleased to announce the launch of UrbanForm Seattle
Starting today, UrbanForm now provides accurate zoning information, instantly available online, to facilitate development, design, and...
Quang Truong
May 2, 20221 min read


Featured Customer: SQFT Studios
"We’re doing anything we can to try to help the housing crisis and really move the needle on that by adding density to the city of...
Quang Truong
Apr 25, 202210 min read


Why We Need a Better Definition of Innovation in Architecture, Part 1: Because of Guggenheim
In 2014, Guggenheim launched a massively ambitious design competition for a new museum in Helsinki, Finland. All architecture lovers know...
Quang Truong
Apr 19, 20222 min read


Featured customer: Abe Design Group
"My dream is to work in Portland and the greater Pacific Northwest on passive house projects that combine both modern and traditional...
Quang Truong
Apr 11, 20225 min read


We don't talk about zoning, no, no, no
My least favorite part about being an architect? Doing the zoning. Thousands of pages of text, tables, maps, charts, and formulas that...
Quang Truong
Apr 6, 20222 min read


Featured Customer: Habitat for Humanity
Our second featured customer needs almost no introduction: Habitat for Humanity. UrbanForm co-founder and CEO Quang Truong had a...
Quang Truong
Apr 3, 202214 min read


UrbanForm Seattle is now available
It's a ‘soft launch’. We’re happy to announce the ‘soft launch’ of UrbanForm Seattle today, taking the same power to communicate...
Quang Truong
Mar 27, 20221 min read


Featured Customer: YBA Architects
“Thinking about projects from the standpoint of how the design enhances the everyday lives of people is a very noble endeavor.” - Alex...
Quang Truong
Mar 19, 202224 min read


International Women's Day 2022
We'd like to shine a spotlight on UrbanForm's co-founder, Anna Shakotko. Anna has an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in economics from the...
Quang Truong
Mar 11, 20221 min read


Are Use Classifications Outdated?
For the past couple of years, many office spaces sat empty while residential spaces became our de facto offices. The zoning specifically...
Quang Truong
Mar 7, 20222 min read


We Love Architects
We built UrbanForm because we love architecture, and we believe in the power of architects to shape our environment for the better. Image...
Quang Truong
Mar 3, 20221 min read


UrbanForm Is Better Than 'Back-Of-The-Envelope'
Zoning is so complicated that most of the time a 'back-of-the-envelope' calculation is done to figure out development capacity: i.e., get...
Quang Truong
Feb 15, 20222 min read


A House Came Up For Sale. Was This An Opportunity?
Our friends got word that a tiny old house across the street in their neighborhood was going up for sale. But it seemed like there could...
Quang Truong
Jan 27, 20222 min read


Press: Portland Business Journal
We’re happy to be featured in the Portland Business Journal. Check it out! "Portland startup Polytechnica wants to make it easier to...
Quang Truong
Dec 23, 20211 min read


MaxBuild: exclusive AI zoning-derived stats and visualizations
We’ve been working on this a while, and we’re happy to introduce MaxBuild, a set of exclusive, proprietary statistics and visualizations...
Quang Truong
Nov 22, 20211 min read


Brian Libby interviews Co-Founder Quang Truong
Brian Libby, one of the nation’s most widely published architectural writers, recently published an interview with UrbanForm co-founder...
Quang Truong
May 3, 20211 min read
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