With public trust on the line, the stakes are high for urban planners to ensure accuracy in our AI work. Here’s how to do it.

The self-driving cars of the AI world open a trove of opportunities for planners — and a whole new set of challenges to overcome.

Planetizen’s resident AI and planning expert answers the number one question he gets asked: where do I begin?

It’s tempting to write off the havoc that data centers are wreaking in communities across the country as an IT problem. The truth? It’s a planning problem.

This course explains the foundational technologies behind generative AI, including GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), VAEs (Variational Autoencoders), and LLMs (Large Language Models). The tutori...

AI can help planners make sense of lots of community input and hear from those who don’t usually show up. But it shouldn’t replace real conversations. Be upfront about how stakeholders’ input is us…

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Let’s see what the data says.

Let’s see what the data says.

Tracking your impact by the numbers

Planning history tells us that public trust is both fragile and essential. With AI, the time to set the right course is now.

Planetizen AI columnist Tom Sanchez takes us under the hood of the technology that drives many AI tools.

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025, The Handbook of AI and Urban Planning, edited by Thomas W. Sanchez (Texas A&M)

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Creativity has long been key to great urban design. What if we see AI as our new creative partner?

Creativity has long been key to great urban design. What if we see AI as our new creative partner?

Published in Technology|Architecture + Design (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2025)

America shouldn’t be doomed to oscillate between two types of chaos. Instead, we need to reembrace the antidote for chaos: the rule of law.

This book aims to introduce planners to AI, outlining essential concepts, terminologies, and methodologies. AI now promises to reshape urban planning, but as with many technological innovations, AI al...

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025, The Handbook of AI and Urban Planning, edited by Thomas W. Sanchez (Texas A&M)

Planners are turning to the up-and-coming platform, as well as other social media, to expand their reach and increase community engagement.

The tool, called Deep Research, arrives days after OpenAI released another one, which shops for groceries and books restaurant reservations.

Who's going in the spreadsheet bin?

Academia runs on a steady stream of reviews— journal articles, promotion and tenure packages, book proposals, research proposals—the list goes on.