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This paper examines the recent advances and applications of AI in human geography especially the use of machine (deep) learning, including place representation and modeling, spatial analysis and predictive mapping, and urban planning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Song Gao

Urban development has been a defining force in human history, shaping cities for centuries. However, past studies mostly analyze such development as predictive tasks, failing to reflect its generative nature. Therefore, this study designs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kailai Sun , Yuebing Liang , Mingyi He , Yunhan Zheng , Alok Prakash , Shenhao Wang , Jinhua Zhao , Alex "Sandy'' Pentland

As we move through cities in our daily lives, we are in a constant state of transformation of the spaces around us. The form and essence of urban space directly affects people's behavior, describing in their perception what is possible or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Salvatore Iaconesi , Oriana Persico

Novel methods of analysis are needed to help advance our understanding of the intricate interplay between landscape changes, population dynamics, and sustainable development. Self organized machine learning has been highly successful in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 John M. Wandeto , Birgitta Dresp-Langley

Urban systems are typical examples of complex systems, where the integration of physics-based modeling with artificial intelligence (AI) presents a promising paradigm for enhancing predictive accuracy, interpretability, and decision-making.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-18 En Xu , Huandong Wang , Yunke Zhang , Sibo Li , Yinzhou Tang , Zhilun Zhou , Yuming Lin , Yuan Yuan , Xiaochen Fan , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li

Cities are characterized by the presence of a dense population with a high potential for interactions between individuals of diverse backgrounds. They appear in parallel to the Neolithic revolution a few millennia ago. The advantages…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-12 Elsa Arcaute , Jose J. Ramasco

Analysing 88 sources published from 2011 to 2021, this paper presents a first systematic review of the computer vision-based analysis of buildings and the built environments to assess its value to architectural and urban design studies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Małgorzata B. Starzyńska , Robin Roussel , Sam Jacoby , Ali Asadipour

Urban planning is increasingly data driven, yet the challenge of designing with data at a city scale and remaining sensitive to the impact at a human scale is as important today as it was for Jane Jacobs. We address this challenge with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Fabio Miranda , Maryam Hosseini , Marcos Lage , Harish Doraiswamy , Graham Dove , Claudio T. Silva

Urban research aims to understand how cities operate and evolve as complex adaptive systems. With the rapid growth of urban data and analytical methodologies, the central challenge of the field has shifted from data availability to the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tong Xia , Jiankun Zhang , Ruiwen You , Ao Xu , Linghao Zhang , Tengyao Tu , Jingzhi Wang , Jinghua Piao , Yunke Zhang , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

A smart city can be seen as a framework, comprised of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). An intelligent network of connected devices that collect data with their sensors and transmit them using cloud technologies in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

The growth of mobile sensor technologies have made it possible for city councils to understand peoples' behaviour in urban spaces which could help to reduce stress around the city. We present a quantitative approach to convey a collective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Thomas Johnson , Eiman Kanjo , Kieran Woodward

The metaphor of cities as organisms has a long history in urban planning, and a few urban modeling approaches have explicitly been linked to Artificial Life. We propose in that paper to explore the extent of Artificial Life and Artificial…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Juste Raimbault

Visualizations themselves have become a data format. Akin to other data formats such as text and images, visualizations are increasingly created, stored, shared, and (re-)used with artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. In this survey, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Aoyu Wu , Yun Wang , Xinhuan Shu , Dominik Moritz , Weiwei Cui , Haidong Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Huamin Qu

The appearance of the world varies dramatically not only from place to place but also from hour to hour and month to month. Every day billions of images capture this complex relationship, many of which are associated with precise time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tawfiq Salem , Scott Workman , Nathan Jacobs

The current science of cities can provide a useful foundation for future urban policies, provided that these proposals have been validated by correct observations of the diversity of situations in the world. However, international…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-21 Juste Raimbault , Eric Denis , Denise Pumain

Urban analytics combines spatial analysis, statistics, computer science, and urban planning to understand and shape city futures. While it promises better policymaking insights, concerns exist around its epistemological scope and impacts on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Geoff Boeing , Michael Batty , Shan Jiang , Lisa Schweitzer

Two fundamental issues surrounding research on the image of the city respectively focus on the city's external and internal representations. The external representation in the context of this paper refers to the city itself, external to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-10-22 Bin Jiang

Transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly essential for addressing grand societal challenges, particularly in complex domains such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), urban planning, and social sciences. However, effectively validating and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rashid Mushkani

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has significantly changed many domains, including applied statistics. This review and vision paper explores the evolving role of applied statistics in the AI era, drawing from our…

Applications · Statistics 2024-12-16 Jie Min , Xinyi Song , Simin Zheng , Caleb B. King , Xinwei Deng , Yili Hong

Challenges due to the rapid urbanization of the world -- especially in emerging countries -- range from an increasing dependence on energy, to air pollution, socio-spatial inequalities, environmental and sustainability issues. Modelling the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-07 Marc Barthelemy