Welcome to Cittopia

Cittopia is a platform that turns cities into measurable, comparable, knowable instruments of collective progress — a free public atlas for citizens, and a paid SaaS for the municipalities that run them.

Version 0.9 · Public draft Updated 2026-04-30 Maintainer Tunç Meriç

What is Cittopia? #

Cittopia is two things at once. For citizens, it is a free, beautifully designed open atlas of cities — population, transport, environment, education, jobs and quality of life — drawn from open municipal data and Eurostat's Urban Audit. For municipalities, it is a SaaS dashboard that turns those same metrics into action: AI-driven sister-city matchmaking, the Pulse (CityPulse) score, district lenses and project boards.

Why this existsMost "smart city" platforms either lock data behind enterprise paywalls or reduce cities to dashboards no citizen can read. Cittopia keeps the data public and the tools sharp — a knowable city, not a smart one.

Who is it for? #

A five-minute tour #

  1. Why Cities, Why Now — the thesis behind Cittopia in 600 words.
  2. Public Atlas — what every citizen sees: city profiles, the Pulse score, the district lens.
  3. Admin SaaS — what every city CIO uses: matchmaking, sister cities, initiatives.
  4. Methodology — how we compute the Pulse, where the data comes from, how we measure data confidence.
  5. Proof of Belief — how to be counted as a believer before we ship.
  6. The Agora — the open citizen forum where ideas become city decisions, and cities are graded on their Listening Score.

Get involved #

You can help Cittopia in three ways:

Be a Cittopian — sign the PoB →


Last updated 30 April 2026 by Tunç Meriç Suggest an edit