Hardware Podcasts

143. 15-Minute Cities Via Urban Design AI

The Next Byte Podcast · 10 Oct 2023 · 28m

What this episode covers

Hosts Daniel and Forbode discuss research from Tsinghua University on using AI to design '15-minute cities' where essential services are accessible within a short walk or bike ride. They explain how deep reinforcement learning and graph neural networks optimize urban layouts far faster than human planners, improving spatial efficiency by 50% and accessibility by 20%. The hosts emphasize that this AI is intended as a collaborative tool for urban planners to handle complex computations, allowing humans to focus on high-level conceptual goals like equity and ecology.

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Tsinghua University, Mouser Electronics
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Ansys

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