Post-Carbon Cities with Artificial Intelligence: Designing Urban Futures through Energy Ethics, Smart Morphology, and Regenerative Architecture

In the face of accelerating climate change, energy insecurity, and rapidly expanding urban populations, architecture and urbanism are called to redefine their ethical, ecological, and technological responsibilities. This paper introduces a visionary framework for designing post-carbon cities by integrating artificial intelligence (AI), energy ethics, and regenerative urban morphology into a cohesive design and policy methodology. Rather than perceiving cities as fixed infrastructures, the proposed model reimagines them as adaptive, self-learning ecosystems capable of evolving in response to environmental, social, and data-driven inputs. Grounded in performance-based design, the framework employs a hybrid methodology that combines AI-augmented generative design, climate-responsive morphology, and ethical energy strategies. Digital tools such as Rhino, Grasshopper, Ladybug, Honeybee, and real-time climate-data simulation platforms are used to develop scenarios for adaptive building forms, carbon-neutral energy systems, and decentralized infrastructure planning. The model also incorporates theoretical foundations from planetary urbanism, energy democracy, and post humanist ethics to ensure alignment with broader goals of justice and sustainability. The proposal is benchmarked against global design and research initiatives from institutions such as ETH Zurich, TU Delft, MIT, and Harvard GSD, demonstrating both scalability and adaptability for different urban contexts including retrofitting vulnerable regions in the Global South. It highlights the socio-political dimension of climate resilience and promotes new frameworks for AI accountability, participatory governance, and ecologically intelligent urban form-making. Ultimately, this research positions architecture and urban design not only as aesthetic or functional disciplines, but as critical agents in the transition to decarbonized, ethically intelligent, and ecologically regenerative futures. The paper offers a comprehensive roadmap for academics, designers, and policymakers to collaboratively shape sustainable cities where environmental intelligence, social inclusion, and technological ethics converge.

کلیدواژه ها:

Post-Carbon Cities ، Artificial Intelligence in Architecture ، Energy Ethics ، Climate-Responsive Design ، Regenerative Urbanism ، Smart Morphology