The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Intelligent Urban Planning: From Data-Driven Insights to Sustainable City Systems
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9416.IJAIBDCMS-V7I1P116Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning, Intelligent Smart City Systems, Sustainable Urban Development, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Cognitive and Adaptive City FrameworksAbstract
The high rate of urbanization has made the process of urbanization highly complex and requires smart planning systems that can coordinate the dynamics of infrastructure, resources, and sustainability. More recent development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides informative functionalities that could change traditional urban planning into adaptable and intelligent city environments. Nevertheless, current AI-inspired city planning strategies are disjointed, passive, and mostly reactive, with no real-time flexibility, multi-domain acumen, and long-term sustainability assimilation. Existing systems cannot also autonomously learn in changing urban dynamics and policy effects. This study aims to develop an intelligent urban planning system powered by AI that will combine multi-source urban data, cognitive learning, and sustainability goals into one platform of the decision-making system. The suggested strategy will help cities to self-analyze, self-optimize, and self-adapt in the changing urban conditions. The reason behind the motivation of this work is due to the increasing divide between the fast changing issues in the city and the limited intelligence of current systems in planning. The autonomous, resilient, and explainable AI models are all that is critically required to help with the long-term sustainability of the urban environment and policy-making. The paper adds a new cognitive urban intelligence paradigm, which integrates hybrid AI models, self-adaptive feedback and sustainability-conscious optimization. The research is, to our knowledge, the first attempt of its kind to present a self-adaptive, policy-conscious AI planning system that is capable of continuous learning and real-time urban evolution modelling, as the next generation of smart cities.
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