Introducing AI Into Urban Studies
(2023) p.1-20- Abstract
Innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cities in unprecedented ways. In this chapter, we unpack the connections between AI and the urban by introducing the concept of urban AI and reflecting on its most prominent incarnations: autonomous vehicles, urban robots, city brains and urban software agents. We then illustrate how the emergence of urban AI is producing a new urbanism that we term AI urbanism. AI urbanism originates from smart urbanism but also departs from it along three main axes, namely function, presence and agency. We discuss the similarities and differences underpinning AI and smart urbanism, highlight the problematic implications of human-machine interactions in the making and governance of cities and,... (More)
Innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cities in unprecedented ways. In this chapter, we unpack the connections between AI and the urban by introducing the concept of urban AI and reflecting on its most prominent incarnations: autonomous vehicles, urban robots, city brains and urban software agents. We then illustrate how the emergence of urban AI is producing a new urbanism that we term AI urbanism. AI urbanism originates from smart urbanism but also departs from it along three main axes, namely function, presence and agency. We discuss the similarities and differences underpinning AI and smart urbanism, highlight the problematic implications of human-machine interactions in the making and governance of cities and, finally, call on urbanists and urban stakeholders to scrutinize the critical intersections between urban development and the development of artificial intelligences.
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- author
- Cugurullo, Federico ; Caprotti, Federico ; Cook, Matthew ; Karvonen, Andrew LU ; McGuirk, Pauline and Marvin, Simon
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Artificial Intelligence and the City : Urbanistic Perspectives on Ai - Urbanistic Perspectives on Ai
- pages
- 20 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85176306794
- ISBN
- 9781003810391
- 9781032431475
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003365877-1
- project
- Urban Arena
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline McGuirk and Simon Marvin; individual chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved.
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- 2024-01-10 13:20:29
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abstract = {{<p>Innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cities in unprecedented ways. In this chapter, we unpack the connections between AI and the urban by introducing the concept of urban AI and reflecting on its most prominent incarnations: autonomous vehicles, urban robots, city brains and urban software agents. We then illustrate how the emergence of urban AI is producing a new urbanism that we term AI urbanism. AI urbanism originates from smart urbanism but also departs from it along three main axes, namely function, presence and agency. We discuss the similarities and differences underpinning AI and smart urbanism, highlight the problematic implications of human-machine interactions in the making and governance of cities and, finally, call on urbanists and urban stakeholders to scrutinize the critical intersections between urban development and the development of artificial intelligences.</p>}},
author = {{Cugurullo, Federico and Caprotti, Federico and Cook, Matthew and Karvonen, Andrew and McGuirk, Pauline and Marvin, Simon}},
booktitle = {{Artificial Intelligence and the City : Urbanistic Perspectives on Ai}},
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title = {{Introducing AI Into Urban Studies}},
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doi = {{10.4324/9781003365877-1}},
year = {{2023}},
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