Hi Jesse,
There are CityEngine service providers that can help with this bridge..
Demo content as this rule of the week is usually just supposed to give inspirations of what can be done with CityEngine. I agree with you that it would be nice to have lots and lots of rules available, but in reality, each project is slightly different so that you often need code adaptions for each project. This makes it so hard to develop solid 'general purpose' rules. And of course: Planners are supposed to plan and not program.
This is why we for example developed a CityEngine (CGA) based planning tool, where you don't need any programming.
I know personally (I have worked in the CityEngine development team for almost 5 years) that the developers and content teams are very aware of some of the issues you mention - and they're working very hard on releasing more and more planning specific features.
Rome was not built in a day ..
Cheers,
matt
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