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CityPlanner: A Sandbox Agent for Executable Urban Planning

arxiv.org/abs/2609.09578

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2609.09578
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Urban planning is a real-world spatial optimization problem that requires selecting feasible actions from large candidate spaces under practical objectives such as cost and service quality. Existing optimization and reinforcement learning methods are effective for fixed formulations, but often depend on task-specific representations and constraint handling. We propose \emph{CityPlanner}, a sandbox-agent framework for executable urban planning. CityPlanner introduces \emph{UrbanSandbox}, a unified file-based environment where agents inspect task files, generate plans, run evaluators, and revise decisions based on executable feedback. To make learning tractable, we further propose atomic-task reinforcement learning, which decomposes long sandbox trajectories into \emph{BuildPlan} for initial construction and \emph{ImprovePlan} for feedback-based refinement. Experiments on a real-world benchmark show that CityPlanner consistently outperforms heuristic, task-specific RL, and general LLM-agent baselines. Ablations verify the contributions of UrbanSandbox, atomic-task RL, and iterative deployment. We release the code and dataset at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/co-agent-C1C8currentcurrentarXiv (Atom API + RSS)T1highdeterministic

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Wentao Zhang, Jingyuan Wang, Zetong Zhou, Yifan Yang, Wenrui WangcurrentcurrentarXiv (Atom API + RSS)T1highdeterministic

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