AI Applications in Urban Planning

The cities of the future are being built right now, by the people who learn to govern intelligent systems before those systems quietly govern them.

For ten thousand years, cities have been deaf. They could not feel their own fevers, hear the pipe about to burst, or sense the failure forming beneath the street. That has changed. For the first time in history, a city can sense itself, model itself, and even sketch its own futures and the implications for everyone who shapes urban life are profound.

AI Applications in Urban Planning is the definitive guide to this transformation. Drawing on real deployments from Singapore to Barcelona, Helsinki to Medellín, it moves beyond the hype to show what artificial intelligence is genuinely doing in cities today and what it cannot, and must not, be allowed to do alone.

Whether you are a planner, policymaker, technologist, investor, or student, this book gives you the vocabulary, the case studies, and the judgment to navigate the most consequential shift urban planning has ever faced. It is both a practical reference and a call to action: the intelligent city is not a destination technology delivers. It is the cumulative residue of decisions being made by people like you right now.