PlanGPT: Enhancing Urban Planning with a Tailored Agent Framework

He Zhu, Guanhua Chen, Wenjia Zhang


Abstract
In the field of urban planning, general-purpose large language models often struggle to meet the specific needs of planners. Tasks like generating urban planning texts, retrieving related information, and evaluating planning documents pose unique challenges. To enhance the efficiency of urban professionals and overcome these obstacles, we introduce PlanGPT, the first specialized AI agent framework tailored for urban and spatial planning. Developed through collaborative efforts with professional urban planners, PlanGPT integrates a customized local database retrieval system, domain-specific knowledge activation capabilities, and advanced tool orchestration mechanisms. Through its comprehensive agent architecture, PlanGPT coordinates multiple specialized components to deliver intelligent assistance precisely tailored to the intricacies of urban planning workflows. Empirical tests demonstrate that PlanGPT framework has achieved advanced performance, providing comprehensive support that significantly enhances professional planning efficiency.
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2025.acl-industry.54
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Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Georg Rehm, Yunyao Li
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He Zhu, Guanhua Chen, and Wenjia Zhang. 2025. PlanGPT: Enhancing Urban Planning with a Tailored Agent Framework. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track), pages 764–783, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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