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AI can design cities. Ten ways to keep humans in control.
Generative AI (GenAI)[1] is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content – like text, images, or ideas – by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is rapidly becoming part of everyday urban design research and practice. The models can summarise literature in seconds, generate policy scenarios, and help draft complex narratives.
Bydesign: Skal vi starte forfra eller værne om historien?
Vores byer bliver ofte beskrevet som et levende arkiv over menneskelig erindring. Hvis du bevæger dig gennem et gammelt kvarter i en islamisk by som Fez i Marokko eller Kairo i Egypten, kan du se, historien folde sig ud i gader og bygninger. Fortiden er ikke gemt væk på et museum, men indlejret i hverdagen og fortsat synlig i byens rum.
AI can design cities, but can it understand what matters to people? 10 ways to keep humans in control
By Abeer Elshater and Hisham Abusaada. Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content – like text, images, or ideas – by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is rapidly becoming part of everyday urban design research and practice. The models can summarise literature in seconds, generate policy scenarios, and help draft complex narratives.
AI can design cities, but can it understand what matters to people? 10 ways to keep humans in control
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content—like text, images, or ideas—by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is rapidly becoming part of everyday urban design research and practice. The models can summarize literature in seconds, generate policy scenarios, and help draft complex narratives.
AI can design cities, but can it understand what matters to people? 10 ways to keep humans in control
Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content – like text, images, or ideas – by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is rapidly becoming part of everyday urban design research and practice. The models can summarise literature in seconds, generate policy scenarios, and help draft complex narratives.
Designing cities: should we build from scratch or keep history alive?
Cities are often described as living archives of human memory. Walk through an old neighbourhood in an Islamic city like Fez in Morocco or Cairo in Egypt, and you can see layers of history in its streets and buildings. Traces of the past remain visible in everyday life. Urban historians sometimes call this a palimpsest – a place where layers of history remain visible, like old writing faintly showing beneath new text.
Proactive urbanism - with or without an urban designer
Advanced search Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/17549175.2025.2504667?needAccess=true Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
From Social Sciences to Urban Praxis: A Critical Synthesis of Historical-Contextual Inquiry and Analysis in Urban Studies
1. Introduction Over the past two decades, scholars have increasingly disputed the methodological challenges in developing the critical synthesis of urban studies [1,2]. The interdisciplinary focus is evident in the expanding methodologies across the social sciences. In literary studies, this includes critical textual analysis [3]. Contextual inquiry is increasingly applied in education and pedagogy [4]. Higher education research utilizes assessment frameworks to evaluate academic practices [5].
Applying Contextualism: From Urban Formation to Textual Representation
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Beyond Keywords: Effective Strategies for Building Consistent Reference Lists in Scientific Research
1. Introduction Selecting suitable references demands careful attention and methodological rigor [1]. The challenge lies in identifying references relevant to the study’s focal point while excluding unrelated ones. Optimizing existing methodologies is crucial to curating a comprehensive and cohesive reference list that aligns seamlessly with the study’s thematic scope [2,3]. This effort enhances foundational knowledge and facilitates further analysis and revisions [4].
Decoding Near Synonyms in Pedestrianization Research: A Numerical Analysis and Summative Approach
1. Introduction The consistent usage of synonyms in scientific manuscripts is pivotal for ensuring clarity and precision in communication across diverse contexts, including the humanities in language and literature [1,2], and the social sciences in linguistics and language [3,4,5,6], culture [1,7], and architecture and urban studies [8]. This article delves into near synonyms, exploring expressions with similar but not identical meanings [5,9].
IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Revisiting Urban Street Planning and Design Factors to Promote Walking as a Physical Activity for Middle-Class Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome in Cairo, Egypt
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Reconceptualizing Proximity Measurement Approaches through the Urban Discourse on the X-Minute City
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Can Public Spaces Alleviate Poverty-Related Feelings? Content Analysis of Vision 2030 and Egyptian Residents’ Storytelling
1. Introduction From a qualitative standpoint, this study emphasizes the critical role of public spaces in alleviating poverty-related feelings in Vision 2030 and social housing at the scale of urban form. Flourishing individuals is one of the domains of community well-being [1]. This approach treats deprivation as a psychological phenomenon, where economic and community well-being must be provided [2].
Cairenes’ Storytelling: Pedestrian Scenarios as a Normative Factor When Enforcing Street Changes in Residential Areas
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by 1,* and 2 1 Department of Architecture, Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC), Cairo 12311, Egypt 2 Department of Urban Design and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11517, Egypt * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Soc. Sci.
The Property Chronicle - Real estate, alternative real assets and other diversions
During the course of wars, the infrastructure of cities faces destruction. Fighting, regardless of its intentions, destroys roads, bridges, commercial and residential buildings, as well as the architecture they embody. Throughout history and around the globe, calls to stop wars have focused on the value of people’s lives. In recent decades, there has been a lot of attention paid to protecting cultural heritage.
Wars in cities: three rules for protecting the built environment during conflict
During the course of wars, the infrastructure of cities faces destruction. Fighting, regardless of its intentions, destroys roads, bridges, commercial and residential buildings, as well as the architecture they embody. Throughout history and around the globe, calls to stop wars have focused on the value of people’s lives. In recent decades, there has been a lot of attention paid to protecting cultural heritage.
Citing blogs in academic publications: lessons from urban planning in COVID
Blogs are a double-edged sword. These online essays can be produced by anyone with access to a computer and the internet. The writers could be well-informed experts with valuable insights to share, or official government agencies. Some bloggers are outstanding academic authors who have published their work in accessible databases, like Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Others may be poorly informed people simply sharing a biased opinion.
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