Parkveien, Oslo · a real place

You have an idea. Let the city see it.

Real photo of a street and a small square in Parkveien, Oslo, in autumn: wet tarmac, a low concrete wall, a table-tennis table, benches and large trees.

Today · photo

A tarmac street with puddles, a low concrete wall and a square with a table-tennis table, benches and large trees.

A · Greenery and water · AI-generated proposal

Stone paving and tactile paving in the street. A planted bed with a water channel and a long bench along the edge; the table-tennis table is gone.

B · Light and crossing · AI-generated proposal · shown in the evening

Street lights, a marked pedestrian crossing and a cycle lane. Shown in the evening, so the light differs from the photo of today.

C · Activity · AI-generated proposal

Timber exercise frames on the square and a planted bed with stones and low lights. The street keeps today’s layout.

Photo: Eivind Fasting, 4 October 2026. Faces blurred. Proposals A, B and C are AI-generated working proposals from this photo; B is shown in the evening.

Show your idea in a photo of the place. See what others propose, and talk it over on Bytorget.

Explore two real places →Make your own proposalClosed prototype · by invitation only

One place, many ideas

Same site. Three people. Three ideas.

An architect, an architecture student and a neighbour with no design training each show their own idea for the same site, in the same image.

Product illustration · AI-generated, fictional place · the people are invented

The starting imageThe site today
Kari’s idea · Project architectBrick and two tall storeys
Sara’s idea · Architecture studentPale stone and deep recesses
Ivar’s idea · Lives in this streetWarm colours and balconies facing the street

The ideas are shown side by side to show the range. Today’s prototype compares one proposal set at a time.

Open the product illustration

There is no limit of three ideas for a place. A, B and C are the alternatives in one person’s proposal set, and a place can gather as many sets as people make.

The square in Parkveien, Oslo

What do we gain – and what do we lose?

Proposal A gives the square greenery, water and places to sit. The table-tennis table disappears.

AI-generated proposal A: the street has pale stone paving and a planted strip, and the square has a long timber bench with lighting, a water channel with reeds and new planting in place of the table-tennis table and benches. — **A · Greenery and water** · AI-generated proposal

A adds

Stone paving and a guide line in the street
A planting bed with a water channel and reeds
A long, lit bench along the edge

A removes

The table-tennis table
The benches that are there today

B keeps the table-tennis table. C has exercise frames instead.

A reasoned answer says what gets better, what is lost and what needs to be clarified.

From the image descriptions for Parkveien. Who formulated the proposals is not documented.

See all the proposals in Parkveien

Bytorget

Where an idea meets experience.

A place can gather many people’s proposals. On Bytorget, DEMOCITY’s town square, they meet experience, questions and counter-arguments.

Illustration · invented place and people

A neighbour’s idea, a question and an answer

Ivar · Lives in this street
Idea on proposal C
“My first proposal! I’m not an architect, but I’ve lived in this street for fourteen years. I chose warm colours and recessed balconies …”
Hanne · Lives next door
Question on proposal C
“On proposal C: the facade rises to full height right at the street edge, a little above the eaves of my building. Will the pavement get darker?”
Kari · Project architect
Comment on the post above
“Good question. A taller street frontage can cast more shade on the pavement, but how much depends on which way the street faces. The next step should be a simple sun study of the proposals.”

The neighbour’s question became a concrete next step: a sun study of the proposals.

Open the whole conversation →

Discover places and ideas on the map and in Explore.
Follow people and organisations. Save the places you want to come back to.
Share a link to the place and the image, or share it on Bytorget.

Likes, dislikes and shares are not counted as votes. The conversation and the knowledge people share are still important contributions.

Bytorget, sharing and following exist in the closed prototype. Here they are shown with an invented place.

How answers and votes work

Kingos gate, Oslo

And when the question is the architecture itself?

A gap in the street and three proposals for a new building – modern, contemporary classical and classical – from the same photo and within the same frame.

AI-generated proposal A, Modern: a new building in the gap with smooth, light panel cladding, tall, narrow windows in dark frames, large glazed openings on the ground floor and a recessed top storey with a band of glass, between the same two neighbouring buildings.

Today · photo

The place as it is: a building site behind a fence and concrete barriers, and a blank side wall facing the street.

A · Modern · AI-generated proposal

Smooth, light panel cladding. Tall, narrow windows in dark frames, grouped over two storeys. Large glazed openings on the ground floor and a band of glass on the top storey.

B · Contemporary classic · AI-generated proposal

Light brick. Upright windows set deep in the wall, with French balconies. Light stone on the ground floor and grey panels on the top storey.

C · Classic · AI-generated proposal

Light render. Divided windows in moulded surrounds, with bands between the storeys and a main cornice. A dark base on the ground floor and a plain, light top storey.

Today: the working basis from Eivind Fasting’s photo of 20 October 2026, straightened and edited for privacy. A, B and C: AI-generated from this image and approved for display by Eivind Fasting.

Eivind Fasting chose the intervention, the frame and the three directions, and the image model made the images. A different frame would have given different proposals. Kingos gate is a bounded architecture exercise; no participation has taken place there.

Take part

Five ways to take part.

You don’t need to be able to draw.

Propose
Show your idea in the photo of the place, with up to three alternatives.
Share experience
Say what works, what is missing, and what the image doesn’t show.
Investigate
Compare the alternatives and find out what needs to be clarified. A professional assessment is not a decision.
Challenge
Disagree with reasons, or show another alternative.
Take responsibility
Whoever owns the matter explains the frame and shows what happens to the responses. The decision is made by whoever has the mandate.

Want to make your own proposal?

The prototype is closed and by invitation only.

You describe the change, and it is shown in the photo of the place. You judge the image yourself before you save it.

Ask for access How a proposal is made

In depth

How it works

The rules for proposals and answers, the five-answer threshold, what has been built, and the principles.

Contact

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Send us the place and the question you are trying to answer. Professional collaboration and partnerships are welcome too.

DEMOCITY was started by architect Eivind Fasting to make physical alternatives easier to see, compare and discuss.

Eivind Fasting

Architect, initiator and software developer

Eivind has master’s degrees in architecture and sustainable urban design, and co-founded and ran an architecture practice from 2013 to 2021.

Pilot project · Access by arrangement