Why a Tenured Professor Went Back to School for AI (with John Renne)

John Renne, a tenured professor of real estate and urban planning at Tulane University, explains how returning to school for a master's in AI transformed his research on transit-oriented development, from analyzing 4,500 U.S. train stations to a global database of over 110,000, and how computer vision can now rate how attractive a street is. He also covers teaching vibe coding to urban planning undergraduates and making the case for AI-led oral exams over AI detectors.