Insights and Use Cases

Updates on a paradigm shift

2024

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Parametric Architecture

10 Best AI Tools for Urban Planning

UrbanistAI is an innovative AI tool crafted by Toretei and SPIN Unit to transform urban planning. It’s designed to turn passive observers into active participants, allowing communities to shape their surroundings – more like an AI version of placemaking. By blending collective intelligence with AI, the tool helps users visualize the real-world impact of policies, brainstorm new public spaces, and collaborate on design solutions

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United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Office

Dubai residents design future park

Dubai residents are actively participating in designing a new park in Nad Al Hamar 3 through a unique initiative by the Dubai Urban Design Platform. During a recent workshop, over 20 participants proposed features like interactive play areas, shaded cycling tracks, and solar-powered facilities. The initiative, supported by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation, aims to integrate community input into urban planning, fostering a sense of ownership and ensuring the park meets local needs. This project is part of a broader plan to develop 32 new parks across Dubai.

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UNDP Accelerator Labs

Visualizing the Future: Artificial Intelligence in Climate Action

When water scarcity began threatening the Panama Canal, presidential candidates had to address it publicly, highlighting the need for inclusive, informed climate action plans that incorporate community insights. The UNDP Panama Accelerator Lab is exploring whether AI-powered tools can enhance public understanding of climate risks and stimulate citizen engagement through visualization techniques.

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Baunetz Campu

Artificial Anthropocene

Our current issue explores the evolving relationship between humans and data amidst a phase of critical evaluation in the technological trend’s hype cycle, with a focus on the integrity of data used by generative AIs and UrbanistAI’s development of an AI-based unified language for inclusive participatory urban planning.

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GIZ Data Lab

AI-supported City Planning for more feminist Urban Spaces!

During the Asia and Pacific Transport Forum in May 2024, GIZ Projects and the TUMI Women Mobilize Women Initiative hosted a session on feminist city building, supported by GIZ Data Lab's innovative AI-generated images showcasing inclusive and feminist urban and transport planning in Manila.

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Bloomberg

AI Can Build a Brighter Urban Future — If We Let People Have a Say

GenAI technology is lowering barriers to participation in urban planning by enabling residents to use tools like UrbanistAI and Aino to create photorealistic images and maps, democratizing access to design and architecture and potentially sparking a citizen architecture revolution.

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American Planning Association (APA)

Trend Report for Planners

While co-creation, facilitated by new technologies, allows planners and end users to jointly develop solutions and empowers users as "citizen planners," challenges such as the digital divide threaten inclusivity and equal access, making it crucial for planners to ensure human rights are upheld in this digital era.

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COP24

GenAI to reimagine participatory planning and public engagmenet

Damiano Cerrone from UrbanistAI spoke at COP28 about citizen engagement and co-design in urban planning, highlighting the importance of integrating AI tools to empower communities and ensure inclusive, participatory decision-making. Learn more about his insights online.