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Tom Sanchez

@tomwsanchez.bsky.social

▪︎ Texas A&M, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning ▪︎ Cities, technology, analytics, etc. ▪︎ http://tomwsanchez.com/

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Will Urban Planners Lose Their Jobs to AI? Let’s see what the data says.

Will Urban Planners Lose Their Jobs to AI?

25.09.2025 12:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Will Urban Planners Lose Their Jobs to AI? Let’s see what the data says.

Will Urban Planners Lose Their Jobs to AI?

My latest @planetizen.bsky.social column asks whether planners are on the verge of being sidelined by their own tools, or whether we’ll take the lead in strategizing about how AI will reshape our field. www.planetizen.com/blogs/136043...

25.09.2025 18:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Scholarly Reputation and Metrics - Home Tracking your impact by the numbers

Summer 2025 Urban Planning Citation Update
The updated citation data have just been posted at ScholarMetrics.com. Thanks to those of you who provided corrections, updates, and other faculty information.
tomwsanchez.com/summer-2025-...

08.09.2025 02:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In Planning, the Possibilities With AI are High. So are the Stakes. Planning history tells us that public trust is both fragile and essential. With AI, the time to set the right course is now.

My new column on AI ethics and urban planning is now available on the @planetizen.bsky.social site. I welcome your questions and comments.https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/135877-planning-possibilities-ai-are-high-so-are-stakes

29.08.2025 01:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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See my forthcoming book on AI and urban planning. www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...

09.08.2025 23:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Basics of Artificial Neural Networks: What Urban Planners Should Know Planetizen AI columnist Tom Sanchez takes us under the hood of the technology that drives many AI tools.

See my new @planetizen.bsky.social column on The Basics of Artificial Neural Networks: What Urban Planners Should Know. www.planetizen.com/blogs/135694...

01.08.2025 00:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025, The Handbook of AI and Urban Planning, edited by Thomas W. Sanchez (Texas A&M)

tomwsanchez.com/call-for-cha...

12.04.2025 19:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Linn Meyers | Untitled (2022) | Artsy From Anat Ebgi, Linn Meyers, Untitled (2022), Acrylic ink and colored pencil on graph paper, 11 × 8 1/2 in

You might like Linn Meyers' work www.artsy.net/artwork/linn...

07.06.2025 17:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Artists: Christina Bothwell, Jacy Catlin, Jamison Carter, Margaret Griffith, John Knuth, linn meyers, Catherine Ruane, and Camilla Taylor.

18.04.2025 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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In Urban Planning, AI Prompting Could be the new Design Thinking Creativity has long been key to great urban design. What if we see AI as our new creative partner?

In Urban Planning, AI Prompting Could be the new Design Thinking

30.06.2025 18:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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In Urban Planning, AI Prompting Could be the new Design Thinking Creativity has long been key to great urban design. What if we see AI as our new creative partner?

See my new column, "In Urban Planning, AI Prompting Could be the new Design on @Planetizen www.planetizen.com/blogs/135418... I welcome your comments.

30.06.2025 19:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Planning with Generative AI for Creativity, Global Insight, and Fairness Published in Technology|Architecture + Design (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2025)

My thoughts on GenAI for creativity in planning and design in @tadjournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

13.06.2025 05:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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In TAD 9.1 "Artificial Intelligence and Architectural Intention," Professor Antoine Picon observes that text generation has seen broader acceptance than image generation, partly due to the absence of a third dimension in visual outputs.

Visit www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... to read more.

12.06.2025 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Voters Wanted Immigration Enforcement, but Not Like This America shouldn’t be doomed to oscillate between two types of chaos. Instead, we need to reembrace the antidote for chaos: the rule of law.

Wow. From Cato: www.cato.org/commentary/v...

10.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Check out my interview with Fanni Melles on her podcast, What is the Future for Cities?
wtf4cities.com/2025/06/05/3...

05.06.2025 04:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sometimes analog works just fine.

03.06.2025 19:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Read the first of my monthly @planetizen.bsky.social columns on AI and planning at: www.planetizen.com/features/135...
Your questions, comments, and ideas are greatly appreciated.

29.05.2025 23:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Somebody forgot their mouse in the bathroom at Munich Airport. #lostandfound

16.05.2025 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I need a new car.

12.05.2025 17:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amazing analog calendar. One of the first computers. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tur...

11.05.2025 12:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Incredible trip on the Bernina Express!

08.05.2025 17:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Dubuffett I saw at the Beyeler makes me think of cities.

03.05.2025 10:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Loving all these bikes in Basel!

02.05.2025 08:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

19.04.2025 15:28 — 👍 16828    🔁 6236    💬 511    📌 598
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Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning This book aims to introduce planners to AI, outlining essential concepts, terminologies, and methodologies. AI now promises to reshape urban planning, but as with many technological innovations, AI al...

New book coming out later this year: www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...

16.04.2025 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025, The Handbook of AI and Urban Planning, edited by Thomas W. Sanchez (Texas A&M)

tomwsanchez.com/call-for-cha...

12.04.2025 19:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Todays's small miracle: a new leaf unfurling on a potted fern - spectacular nature strikes again.

19.03.2025 22:41 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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New little drawing, 11 x 8 inches, ink and colored pencil on vintage graph paper. .

20.02.2025 08:25 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What Makes Bluesky the New ‘It’ Space for Urbanists Planners are turning to the up-and-coming platform, as well as other social media, to expand their reach and increase community engagement.

Bluesky for planners.
www.planning.org/planning/202...

13.02.2025 16:34 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI Unveils New A.I. Agent for Research The tool, called Deep Research, arrives days after OpenAI released another one, which shops for groceries and books restaurant reservations.

Well, I think we are at the point where the academic community needs to shift the emphasis of research productivity away from paper writing. A paper or journal article as the primary demonstration of knowledge will need to be replaced by a new form of intellectual engagement and assessment.

03.02.2025 20:54 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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