The digital economy is rewriting urban land value — Nor Amaleena Mazlan and Zafira Nadia Maaz

The digital economy is rewriting urban land value — Nor Amaleena Mazlan and Zafira Nadia Maaz

JUNE 11 — For as long as cities have existed, accessibility has shaped the value of land. This principle is not disappearing, but it is being revised. The digital economy has not made physical space irrelevant. It has made location more complex. Land is still valuable because of where it is, but “where” now means…

Generative AI-powered forecasting for sustainable urban development

Generative AI-powered forecasting for sustainable urban development

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers introduce a novel generative AI-driven framework, MMCN (Memory-aware Multi-Conditional generation Network), for forecasting future urban layouts by jointly considering building density, building height, transportation networks, and historical development patterns. Leveraging a generative architecture-enhanced diffusion model with multi-conditional control, semantic prompt fusion, and spatial memory embedding, MMCN offers a novel approach…