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Table showing four types of urban planning AI, their roles, and planner/AI collaboration. Diagrams illustrate agent/planner relationships as loops, with increasing AI autonomy from out-of-the-loop to planner-out-of-the-loop.

From “Smarter Models” to “More Accountable Decisions”: Human-AI Symbiosis in Urban Planning in the Digital Intelligence Era

Editor’s Introduction The 10th “Chengyuan Cup Planning Decision Support Model Design Competition” is now underway. This year’s competition focuses on land and space governance for ecological civilization and high quality urban development. It continues to support digital technology driven planning innovation and academic exchange in quantitative planning research. For this issue, the Chengyuan Cup team […]

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From Pathway to Symbiosis: Rethinking Urban Planning in the Age of AI

This feature interview traces eight years of research by Professor Zhong-Ren Peng of the University of Florida on artificial intelligence and urban planning. It follows his path from the four-stage typology of urban planning AI proposed in the “Pathway” paper to Symbiotic Planning Theory and the CORE framework for governed human-AI cocreation. Throughout the conversation,

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