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The Rationale and Principles of “Smart Urban Planning”

Spiridonov, V. Yu / Kolyasnikov, V. A. / Shabiev, S. G.

This paper considers issues of information and technological support for strategic urban planning. These include goal-setting, forecasting, design, and the effective development of spatial urbanization based on the synergy of modern urban planning theory and the emerging scientific foundations of artificial urban intelligence. The paper proposes a variation of the theoretical model of “smart urban planning”, including the structure of the rationale and principles, as well as the basic information technologies and methods corresponding to these principles. Within this variant, a mechanism is proposed for the introduction of a “cyberphysical urban planning system”, an urban information platform, a “digital twin”, and a “town planning system for self-monitoring”. This mechanism takes into account the need for introducing artificial intelligence to urban planning in order to provide solutions to the problems of smart Big Data collection, the smart introduction of scientific and technological knowledge, smart analysis and systematization of Big Data, smart forecasting, modeling, and design, the smart integration of successful global practices, smart control for implementation, smart transformation and modernization, and self-organization in decision-making. The paper also establishes dialectical contradictions and threats connected with the issues of goal setting, planning, design, and implementation of the development of the spatial object of urbanization. They are presented in the form of a structure of principles of dialectical unity of goal formation, goal structuring, development and self-development, global and regional specialization and cooperation, unity of construction and measurability, and unity of management.