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Urban-GAN: An artificial intelligence-aided computation system for plural urban design

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  • Steven Jige Quan

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The current urban design computation is mostly centered on the professional designer while ignoring the plural dimension of urban design. In addition, available public participation computational tools focus mainly on information and idea sharing, leaving the public excluded in design generation because of their lack of design expertise. To address such an issue, this study develops Urban-GAN, a plural urban design computation system, to provide new technical support for design empowerment, allowing the public to generate their own designs. The sub-symbolic representation and artificial intelligence techniques of deep convolutional neural networks, case-based reasoning, and generative adversarial networks are used to acquire and embody design knowledge as the density function, and generate design schemes with this knowledge. The system consists of an urban form database and five process models through which the user with little design expertise can select urban form cases, generate designs similar to those cases, and make design decisions. The Urban-GAN is applied to hypothetical design experiments, which show that the user is able to apply the system to successfully generate distinctive designs following the urban form “styles†in Manhattan, Portland, and Shanghai. This study further extends the discussion about the plural urban design computation to general reflections on the goals and values in AI technique application in planning and design.

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  • Steven Jige Quan, 2022. "Urban-GAN: An artificial intelligence-aided computation system for plural urban design," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 49(9), pages 2500-2515, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:49:y:2022:i:9:p:2500-2515
    DOI: 10.1177/23998083221100550
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    1. Steven Jige Quan & James Park & Athanassios Economou & Sugie Lee, 2019. "Artificial intelligence-aided design: Smart Design for sustainable city development," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 46(8), pages 1581-1599, October.
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