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AI for urban planning studies how data and computational models can help understand cities and assess choices about mobility, land use, housing, public space, and climate resilience. Common approaches include GIS and remote sensing, computer vision on street-view imagery, spatial machine learning, optimization, agent-based simulation, and generative models or language-model agents. These methods are used to map urban features, estimate accessibility and heat exposure, model travel and land-use patterns, and compare possible designs or interventions. A central challenge is making results reliable across different places and populations: models need local and field-based validation, calibrated uncertainty, and human review where decisions involve equity, regulations, or professional judgment.

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  1. Designing streetscapes from street-view imagery using diffusion models

    May 17, 2026Yuzhou Chen, Yuebing Liang, Lingqian Hu +4Image GenerationDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida · Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre (SMART) · Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University +1

  2. Housing Potential Common Data Model and City Digital Twin

    May 7, 2026Megan Katsumi, Mark Fox, Anderson Wong +1Urban PlanningDigital Twins

    Urban Data Research Centre School of Cities University of Toronto

  3. From physical surfaces to human-centric heat stress: LST and UTCI heat mapping reveals nonlinear effects of urban morphology

    Apr 24, 2026Yuan Wang, Shengao Yi, Xiaojiang Li +4Urban Planning

    Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117566, Singapore · Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA · Urban Analytics Subject Group, Urban Studies & Social Policy Division, University of Glasgow +3

  4. Similarity-Based Bike Station Expansion via Hybrid Denoising Autoencoders

    Apr 17, 2026Oluwaleke Yusuf, M. Tsaqif Wismadi, Adil RasheedDenoising AutoencodersGeospatial Representation Learning

    Department of Engineering Cybernetics Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway · Department of Architecture and Planning Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway

  5. SPAGBias: Uncovering and Tracing Structured Spatial Gender Bias in Large Language Models

    Apr 16, 2026Binxian Su, Haoye Lou, Shucheng Zhu +4Gender Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    School of Information Science, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China · 2Libraries, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China · School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China +2

  6. Conflated Inverse Modeling to Generate Diverse and Temperature-Change Inducing Urban Vegetation Patterns

    Apr 14, 2026Baris Sarper Tezcan, Hrishikesh Viswanath, Rubab Saher +1Inverse DesignConstrained Generative Modeling

    Computer Science Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA · Forestry and Natural Resources Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  7. Diagnosing Urban Street Vitality via a Visual-Semantic and Spatiotemporal Framework for Street-Level Economics

    Apr 10, 2026Xinxin Zhuo, Mengyuan Niu, Ruizhe Wang +2Urban Planning

    School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, China · School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China · School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  8. Envisioning global urban development with satellite imagery and generative AI

    Mar 27, 2026Kailai Sun, Yuebing Liang, Mingyi He +5Image GenerationUrban Planning

    Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre (SMART), Singapore · Department of Urban Planning, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA +3

  9. UrbanVGGT: Scalable Sidewalk Width Estimation from Street View Images

    Mar 23, 2026Kaizhen Tan, Fan ZhangUrban Planning

    Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA · Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Peking University, China

  10. A Multi-Agent System for Building-Age Cohort Mapping to Support Urban Energy Planning

    Mar 18, 2026Kundan Thota, Thorsten Schlachter, Veit HagenmeyerRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingUrban Planning

    Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

  11. Exploring Urban Land Use Patterns by Pattern Mining and Unsupervised Learning

    Mar 17, 2026Zdena Dobesova, Tai Dinh, Pavel NovakUrban Planning

    Department of Geoinformatics, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic · The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics, Japan

  12. Column Generation for the Micro-Transit Zoning Problem

    Mar 8, 2026Hins Hu, Rishav Sen, Jose Paolo Talusan +3Combinatorial OptimizationUrban Planning

    Cornell University · Vanderbilt University · Pennsylvania State University

  13. Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of AI-Driven Traffic Flow Patterns and Land Use Interaction: A GeoAI-Based Analysis of Multimodal Urban Mobility

    Mar 5, 2026Olaf Yunus Laitinen ImanovTraffic Flow EstimationIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (DTU Compute), Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

  14. City Editing: Hierarchical Agentic Execution for Dependency-Aware Urban Geospatial Modification

    Feb 22, 2026Rui Liu, Steven Jige Quan, Zhong-Ren Peng +6Hierarchical PlanningGeospatial Reasoning

    University of Kansas · Seoul National University · University of Florida +3

  15. A high-resolution nationwide urban village mapping product for 342 Chinese cities based on foundation models

    Feb 21, 2026Lubin Bai, Sheng Xiao, Ziyu Yin +4Urban PlanningRemote Sensing

    Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Environment & Society, Faculty of Science School of Earth, Mcmaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

  16. Automating Document Intelligence in Statutory City Planning

    Feb 20, 2026Lars Malmqvist, Robin BarberWorkflow AutomationDocument Information Extraction

    Research and Implementation, Copenhagen, Denmark · Arcus Global, Cambridge, UK

  17. The Skeletal Trap: Mapping Spatial Inequality and Ghost Stops in Ankara's Transit Network

    Feb 17, 2026Elifnaz KancanUrban Planning

    Independent Researcher, Ankara, Turkey

  18. URBAN-SPIN: A street-level bikeability index to inform design implementations in historical city centres

    Jan 30, 2026Haining Ding, Chenxi Wang, Simon Ladouce +1Feature Interaction ModelingUrban Planning

    Cambridge Cognitive Architecture, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK · NeuroCivitas Lab for NeuroArchitecture, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK