Journal of the American Planning Association
For more than a century, the Journal of the American Planning Association has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, scholars, students, policy makers, and others interested in the planning profession.
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Volume 92, Number 2
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Special Issue: AI and the Future of Urban Planning
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the conditions under which planners work, the data they rely on, and the decisions they help make. Yet whether AI will ultimately improve planning, distort it, or simply reproduce existing problems in new forms remains an open question. JAPA Editor Yan Song, PhD, and guest editors Xinyu Fu, PhD, AICP, and Tom Sanchez, PhD, AICP, invite submissions to this special issue, which seeks to advance the conversation by bringing together diverse perspectives on how AI may reshape planning theory, practice, governance, and professional institutions. They particularly encourage submissions from practitioner-academic collaborations, research grounded in direct engagement with planning agencies, professional organizations, or policy actors, and contributions from international scholars to advance a globally informed conversation on the future of AI in urban planning. Authors should submit a title and a 500-word extended abstract by August 1, 2026.
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