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Planning Magazine Highlights Perkins Eastman Study on Leveraging Visual AI to Aid Walkability for Seniors

Are These Streets Made for Walking?
APA’s Planning Magazine credited a Perkins Eastman study from 2025 leveraging visual AI to determine the east of mobility for older residents of Hong Kong city streets in “5 Ways Planners Use AI in Their Work Today.” The study, Are These Streets Made For Walking?, used object detection and image segmentation to identify elements of a street, then paired the frequency of those elements with survey data about where elderly people choose to walk.