This paper first defines the concept of energy-driven urban design. It aims to reveal
synergies and trade-offs that may arise while designing urban areas for better energy …

Urban design has been valuable in bringing the principles of transit-oriented development
(TOD) into reality. However, a majority of recommendations summarized by scholars for …

In this paper, we present a method for generating fast conceptual urban design prototypes.
We synthesize spatial configurations for street networks, parcels and building volumes …

Based on the description of a conceptual framework for the representation of planning
problems on various scales, we introduce an evolutionary design optimization system. This …

Urban plans are difficult to comprehensively analyze quantitatively because they lack
sufficiently detailed information. They tend to emphasize land-use, possibly suggesting …

Some caad packages offer additional support for the optimization of spatial configurations,
but the possibilities for applying optimization are usually limited either by the complexity of …

The chapter describes an approach for the development of a future cognitive design
computing system for urban design. The aim of this system is to enable an urban planner to …

Existing urban planning and design systems and workflows do not effectively support a fast
iterative design process capable of generating and evaluating large-scale urban models …

It's not uncommon that analysis and simulation methods are used mainly to evaluate
finished designs and to proof their quality. Whereas the potential of such methods is to lead …

Urban design has been valuable in bringing the principles of transit-oriented development
(TOD) into reality. However, a majority of recommendations summarized by scholars for …