Urban Planning in the ICT Age : The Chronicle of Evolution

This article is an effort to scrutinize the role of ICT development in the chronological transformation of urban planning domain using the exploratory research approach. In this research, it is argued that the theoretical and practical understanding of urban planning should absorb and integrate the bright outcome of the rise of ICT to foster congruent future urban development. The article addresses the trends of transformation in the urban planning domain through the myopic lens of the expansion of ICT era followed by investigating the key drivers shaping the interaction between modern-day urban planning and ICT considering both the dark and bright sides into account