Instant Cities is the global extension of Instant Gent: iconic cities from around the world, modelled from open data and playable instantly in the browser, with nothing to install. Load a city in seconds and wander its streets and landmarks.
It's not just about the outside: you can walk into museums and other buildings and explore them from the inside too.
See instantcities.net for the full list of cities and more about the project.
The first cities are Paris, Rome, London, Prague, Amsterdam, Avignon and Barcelona, with more to come. You can step inside museums like the Louvre, the Uffizi and the British Museum, where the key art pieces are waiting for you.
It is still early days and the environments are rough around the edges.
The hope is that Instant Cities becomes an open source project, maintained collectively by AI-wielding local volunteers: people who know their own city best, using AI to improve its streets, buildings and museums. A public resource in its own right, similar to what OpenStreetMap is for maps. Who knows.
Like Instant Gent, it is vibe-coded and built on open data such as OpenStreetMap, so the same approach can be pointed at any city.