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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

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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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Symbiotic Planning Theory: The CORE Framework for Human–AI Cocreation in Urban Planning

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A new JAPA article by Zhong-Ren Peng and collaborators introduces the CORE framework for accountable human–AI collaboration in urban planning.

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Unveiling the Linkage between Climate Change and Miami-Area Condominium Collapse

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By Yanghe Liu. Featured Image adapted from NY Post. On Thursday, June 24th, 2021, the Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed suddenly roughly an hour after midnight. This catastrophic falling of the 40-year-old residential building in the Miami suburb has destroyed at least half of the 136 units, causing

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Poor and Black neighborhoods express different attitudes towards the hurricane

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Doctoral candidate Wei Zhai and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng examined the association between neighborhood equity and disaster situational awareness with a case study of Hurricane Florence. Disaster situational awareness means knowing what is happening during a disaster event. Zhai, W., Peng, Z. R., & Yuan, F. (2020). Examine the effects of neighborhood equity on disaster situational

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Measuring Citywide Transportation Efficiency

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Doctoral students Wei Zhai and Xueyin Bai, and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng, developed a bottom-up approach to measuring transportation network efficiency with a case study of New York City taxis. October 31, 2019 Zhai, Wei, Xueyin Bai, Zhong-Ren Peng, Chaolin Gu, “A bottom-up transportation network efficiency measuring approach: A case study of taxi efficiency in New York

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The Change of Mobility in Poor and Wealthy Counties in the United States Amid Covid-19 Outbreak

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Doctoral candidate Wei Zhai, visiting scholar Mengyang Liu and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng visualized how foot traffic has increased or declined across the United States amid Covid-19 Outbreak. June 6, 2020 Zhai, W., Liu, M., & Peng, Z. R. (2020). Social distancing and inequality in the United States amid COVID-19 outbreak. Environment and Planning A: Economy and

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