Automated Urban Planning Aware Spatial Hierarchies and Human Instructions

Published In

Knowledge and Information Systems

Document Type

Citation

Publication Date

11-29-2022

Abstract

Traditional urban planning demands urban experts to spend much time producing an optimal urban plan under many architectural constraints. The remarkable imaginative ability of deep generative learning provides hope for renovating this domain. Existing works are constrained by: (1) neglecting human requirements; (2) omitting spatial hierarchies, and (3) lacking urban plan samples. We propose a novel, deep human-instructed urban planner to fill these gaps and implement two practical frameworks. In the preliminary version, we formulate the task into an encoder–decoder paradigm. The encoder is to learn the information distribution of surrounding contexts, human instructions, and land-use configuration. The decoder is to reconstruct the land-use configuration and the associated urban functional zones. Although it has achieved good results, the generation performance is still unstable due to the complex optimization directions of the decoder. Thus, we propose a cascading deep generative adversarial network (GAN) in this paper, inspired by the workflow of urban experts. The first GAN is to build urban functional zones based on human instructions and surrounding contexts. The second GAN will produce the land-use configuration by considering the built urban functional zones. Finally, we conducted extensive experiments and case studies to validate the effectiveness and superiority of our work.

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Copyright 2022 Springer Nature

DOI

10.1007/s10115-022-01801-6

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39508

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