First requests were initially made in Rio in 2011 for associations to use the software in favelas, and then successively in Africa, South America and India. In parallel, associations and groups in Europe also wanted to have complete freedom to implement the collaborative urban planning device independently in their territories, without needing more funding than the support of users.

In June 2013, Civic-Tech UFO presented the Unlimited Cities DIY prototype at the Futur en Seine festival: a free, easy-to-implement and open source update. The presentations of the beta version follow one after another then: September 2013 Nantes for the Ecocity symposium, in November 2013, Barcelona at the Open Cities award ceremony, Rennes in January 2014 for a meeting at the Institute of Urbanism, Le Havre in March 2014 at a Collaborative Urbanism conference, London in May 2014 at the Franco-British symposium on Smart-Cities, Berlin for the Open Knowledge Festival in July 2014, Hyderabad in India at the beginning of October 2014, for the Metropolis Congress, Wuhan in China at the end of October 2014 for the Caiden Sino-French eco-city conference, Wroclaw in 2015 within the framework of Hacking of the Social Operating System, Lyon in September 2015 at the annual conference of the National Federation of Urban Planning Agencies and many other workshops that confirmed recurring requests for an easy-to-implement Open Source version.

2016 marked a strong acceleration of the expansion of the Open Source version because several practical workshops were organized with the universities of Lyon in April to redesign the Central School campus (Wikibuilding-campus project), and then again in China several conferences and the use of the software with farmers (Wikibuilding-Village project), with children (Wikibuilding Natur project), and with students and teachers of the Wuhan University HUST.

The first contacts between the UN-Habitat agency and the Unlimited Cities DIY software take place in October 2014 in Hyderabad "Hyderabad (India)") with the City Resilience Profiling Program and then in Barcelona in 2015. The connection is made concrete at the following Habitat III Conference. Held every twenty years, the Habitat conferences organized by the UN form a sounding board that accelerates the consideration of the main urban issues in public policies. This year 2016, the preparatory document for the Habitat III Conference in Quito highlights the need to evolve urban planning towards construction carried out in conjunction with civil society. The non-profit organization "7 Milliards d'urbanistes"[16]​ will be present in Quito to introduce the open source Unlimited Cities DIY software to delegates from the 197 member countries to make collaborative urban planning available to the greatest possible number of people.

• - In 2015, the Wikibuilding project designed for the future Paris Rive gauche is preselected within the framework of the "Reinventer Paris" competition.[17]​.

• - Awarded 2013 Printemps du numérique (Rural ICT).

• - Awarded 2013 Territoires innovants (The interconnected ones).

• - Winner of the 2013 Open Cities Awards (European Commission).

• - Awarded 2011 tender for the Futur en Seine project (Digital Cap).

• - Nominated 2011 for the Prix de la croissance verte numérique award (Acidd).

• - 2010 Carrefours Innovations&Territoires (CDC) Selection.

• - Créer virtuellement un urbanisme collectif by Julie Nicolas and Xavier Crépin, Le Moniteur - N°5813, April 2015.

• - L’urbanisme collaboratif, expérience et contexte by Nancy Ottaviano, GIS Participation Colloquium.

• - Clément Marquet, Nancy Ottaviano and Alain Renk, « Pour une ville contributor », Urbanisme dossier "Villes numériques, villes intelligentes?", autumn 2014, p. 53-55.

• - L’appropriation de la ville par le numerique by Clément Marquet: thesis in progress, Mines Telecom Institute.

• - Et si on inventait l’enquête d’imagination Pública? by Sylvain Rolland, La Tribune hors-série Grand-Paris.

• - Villes sans limite, un tool pour stimuler l’imagination Pública by Karim Ben Merien and Xavier Opige, Les Cahiers de l’IAU idf.

• - Wikibuilding: l’urbanisme participatif de main? by Ludovic Clerima, Explorimmo, 2015.

• - (English) Alain Renk, « Urban Diversity: Cities Of Differences Create Different Cities » http://www.worldcrunch.com/impact-smarter-cities/urban-diversity-cities-of-differences-create-different-cities/impact-architecture-urban-planning-sustainability/c15s14019/#Uwcu815oxHJ, on WorldCrunch.com, November 12, 2013 (accessed May 28, 2016).

• - Philippe Gargov, « Samsung et son safari imaginaire : l’urbanisme collaboratif is now mainstream » http://www.pop-up-urbain.com/lurbanisme-collaboratif-is-now-mainstream/, sur pop-up-urbain.com, http://pop-up-urbain.com/ December 21, 2012 (accessed June 13, 2016).

• - radio program from July 8, 2011 Qu’est-ce que la ville numérique? : Le champ des possibles, France Culture, 2011.

First requests were initially made in Rio in 2011 for associations to use the software in favelas, and then successively in Africa, South America and India. In parallel, associations and groups in Europe also wanted to have complete freedom to implement the collaborative urban planning device independently in their territories, without needing more funding than the support of users.

In June 2013, Civic-Tech UFO presented the Unlimited Cities DIY prototype at the Futur en Seine festival: a free, easy-to-implement and open source update. The presentations of the beta version follow one after another then: September 2013 Nantes for the Ecocity symposium, in November 2013, Barcelona at the Open Cities award ceremony, Rennes in January 2014 for a meeting at the Institute of Urbanism, Le Havre in March 2014 at a Collaborative Urbanism conference, London in May 2014 at the Franco-British symposium on Smart-Cities, Berlin for the Open Knowledge Festival in July 2014, Hyderabad in India at the beginning of October 2014, for the Metropolis Congress, Wuhan in China at the end of October 2014 for the Caiden Sino-French eco-city conference, Wroclaw in 2015 within the framework of Hacking of the Social Operating System, Lyon in September 2015 at the annual conference of the National Federation of Urban Planning Agencies and many other workshops that confirmed recurring requests for an easy-to-implement Open Source version.

2016 marked a strong acceleration of the expansion of the Open Source version because several practical workshops were organized with the universities of Lyon in April to redesign the Central School campus (Wikibuilding-campus project), and then again in China several conferences and the use of the software with farmers (Wikibuilding-Village project), with children (Wikibuilding Natur project), and with students and teachers of the Wuhan University HUST.

The first contacts between the UN-Habitat agency and the Unlimited Cities DIY software take place in October 2014 in Hyderabad "Hyderabad (India)") with the City Resilience Profiling Program and then in Barcelona in 2015. The connection is made concrete at the following Habitat III Conference. Held every twenty years, the Habitat conferences organized by the UN form a sounding board that accelerates the consideration of the main urban issues in public policies. This year 2016, the preparatory document for the Habitat III Conference in Quito highlights the need to evolve urban planning towards construction carried out in conjunction with civil society. The non-profit organization "7 Milliards d'urbanistes"[16]​ will be present in Quito to introduce the open source Unlimited Cities DIY software to delegates from the 197 member countries to make collaborative urban planning available to the greatest possible number of people.

• - In 2015, the Wikibuilding project designed for the future Paris Rive gauche is preselected within the framework of the "Reinventer Paris" competition.[17]​.

• - Awarded 2013 Printemps du numérique (Rural ICT).

• - Awarded 2013 Territoires innovants (The interconnected ones).

• - Winner of the 2013 Open Cities Awards (European Commission).

• - Awarded 2011 tender for the Futur en Seine project (Digital Cap).

• - Nominated 2011 for the Prix de la croissance verte numérique award (Acidd).

• - 2010 Carrefours Innovations&Territoires (CDC) Selection.

• - Créer virtuellement un urbanisme collectif by Julie Nicolas and Xavier Crépin, Le Moniteur - N°5813, April 2015.

• - L’urbanisme collaboratif, expérience et contexte by Nancy Ottaviano, GIS Participation Colloquium.

• - Clément Marquet, Nancy Ottaviano and Alain Renk, « Pour une ville contributor », Urbanisme dossier "Villes numériques, villes intelligentes?", autumn 2014, p. 53-55.

• - L’appropriation de la ville par le numerique by Clément Marquet: thesis in progress, Mines Telecom Institute.

• - Et si on inventait l’enquête d’imagination Pública? by Sylvain Rolland, La Tribune hors-série Grand-Paris.

• - Villes sans limite, un tool pour stimuler l’imagination Pública by Karim Ben Merien and Xavier Opige, Les Cahiers de l’IAU idf.

• - Wikibuilding: l’urbanisme participatif de main? by Ludovic Clerima, Explorimmo, 2015.

• - (English) Alain Renk, « Urban Diversity: Cities Of Differences Create Different Cities » http://www.worldcrunch.com/impact-smarter-cities/urban-diversity-cities-of-differences-create-different-cities/impact-architecture-urban-planning-sustainability/c15s14019/#Uwcu815oxHJ, on WorldCrunch.com, November 12, 2013 (accessed May 28, 2016).

• - Philippe Gargov, « Samsung et son safari imaginaire : l’urbanisme collaboratif is now mainstream » http://www.pop-up-urbain.com/lurbanisme-collaboratif-is-now-mainstream/, sur pop-up-urbain.com, http://pop-up-urbain.com/ December 21, 2012 (accessed June 13, 2016).

• - radio program from July 8, 2011 Qu’est-ce que la ville numérique? : Le champ des possibles, France Culture, 2011.