

The Building City Dashboards (BCD, 2016) project, shortly called BCD, is currently under development in the Department of Geocomputation at Maynooth University in Ireland. Developing UI, City Layers and Simulations in Unity: An Example of the BCD project The idea of the VR Beirut 3D project was to develop an interactive urban design tool which could be used to consider a building footprint and massing options, as well as maintaining a record of floor space and the proposed land use by parcel, block and sector (Horne, 2004).

CREATE A VIRTUAL CITY SOFTWARE
There are several vendors who have contributed money and data or donated software to this big project, including CASA, Greater London Authority, Ordnance Survey, Infoterra, ESRI, London Connects (Batty et al., 2000). The core model is aimed to be distributed via the Internet utilizing techniques to optimize large urban data sets for broadband distribution. Virtual London was produced using GIS8, CAD and a variety of new photorealistic imaging techniques including photogrammetric methods of data capture. It provides a good basis for exchanging opinions on a future design (Suomisto, 2001).
CREATE A VIRTUAL CITY SIMULATOR
For city residents and politicians, the simulator is an easy and very illustrative way to walk and fly through the future city. For architects and planners, a virtual model is a platform to test and improve their design. The purpose of the simulator project was to build a realistic vision of the future city center as it is planned today. The Flelsinki City Simulator contains a virtual model of the Helsinki city center and a powerful multi-channel display system for real-time simulation on a large screen. A virtual scene was constructed by combining aerial photographs with street level imagery and three-dimensional (3D) geometry to create a realistic visual simulation of the dense Los Angeles urban environment, detailed enough for the graffiti on the walls and signs in the windows to be legible (Jepson, 2006). The model was used to interactively fly, drive or walk through the city. In 1980, a virtual model of the entire Los Angeles basin was built.
