What is it about?
The advancement of smart technologies also affects land use planning. On the one hand new technologies are applied in specific parts of land use planning, but on the other hand, new insights generated by the new technologies also create novel human-land relationship. For this reasons, future smart land use planning must adopt more advanced technologies and concepts, coordinate the demands of different stakeholders in a more equitable manner, and plan the future of land resources in a more sustainable way.
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Why is it important?
Traditional land use planning exhibits inadequacies in adaptability when confronting increasingly complex and diverse land use issues, such as resilient cities development, Urban Digital Twins (UDTs), and smart city initiatives. Therefore, it is imperative to transform land use planning from a traditional experience-based paradigm to a data-driven one and address current land use issues through Smart Land Use Planning. Smart land use planning is a diversified integrated intelligent system that is network-based, with software platforms as the core, data as the key element, and security as the fundamental guarantee. It integrates technologies including Geographic Information System (GIS), Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It can provide core technical support for the sustainable utilization of land resources and the achievement of regional development goals.
Perspectives
In the face of the three core challenges, namely institutional, human resource, and technological, future smart land use planning needs to construct systematic solutions through the aforementioned measures and promote the collaborative governance of the three. This in-depth coupling of “institution—human resource—technology” can not only effectively resolve the current pain points and difficulties in planning practice but also promote smart land use planning to form an integrated system with resilience, inclusiveness, and sustainability. Ultimately, it will provide planning guarantees for countries or regions to utilize land resources in a rational and efficient manner, achieving goals such as coordinating economic development and land resource allocation, and ensuring the sustainable use of land.
Professor Walter Timo de Vries
Technical University of Munich
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This page is a summary of: Smart Land Use Planning: Hotspots and Prospects, Land, November 2025, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/land14112193.
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