Fortune December 2, 2024
Seventy percent of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050, and that huge number makes urban planning more challenging. As a result, planners have turned to technology, most recently generative AI, to help design, analyze, and develop overcrowded areas.
Enthusiasts envision urban planners using AI to review development proposals, analyze proposed zoning changes, and develop new city master plans or optimize existing ones.
In one recent test case, Virginia Tech professors used generative AI to determine the walkability of an area by using AI tools to analyze images for built environment features like benches, streetlights, and sidewalks. To the extent AI can take over such simple, but labor-intensive tasks, urban planners would perhaps have...
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