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This book explores in theory and practice how artificial
intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upon
a range of urban disciplines and case studies, the chapters reveal
the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on urban society,
urban infrastructure, urban governance, urban planning and urban
sustainability. Contributors examine how the city, far from being a
passive recipient of new technologies, is influencing and reframing
AI through subtle processes of co-constitution. The book advances
three main contributions and arguments: First, it provides
empirical evidence of the emergence of a post-smart trajectory for
cities in which new material and decision-making capabilities are
being assembled through multiple AIs. Second, it stresses the
importance of understanding the mutually constitutive relations
between the new experiences enabled by AI technology and the urban
context. Third, it engages with the concepts required to clarify
the opaque relations that exist between AI and the city, as well as
how to make sense of these relations from a theoretical
perspective. Artificial Intelligence and the City offers a
state-of-the-art analysis and review of AI urbanism, from its roots
to its global emergence. It cuts across several disciplines and
will be a useful resource for undergraduates and postgraduates in
the fields of urban studies, urban planning, geography,
architecture, urban design, science and technology, sociology and
politics.
This book explores in theory and practice how artificial
intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upon
a range of urban disciplines and case studies, the chapters reveal
the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on urban society,
urban infrastructure, urban governance, urban planning and urban
sustainability. Contributors examine how the city, far from being a
passive recipient of new technologies, is influencing and reframing
AI through subtle processes of co-constitution. The book advances
three main contributions and arguments: First, it provides
empirical evidence of the emergence of a post-smart trajectory for
cities in which new material and decision-making capabilities are
being assembled through multiple AIs. Second, it stresses the
importance of understanding the mutually constitutive relations
between the new experiences enabled by AI technology and the urban
context. Third, it engages with the concepts required to clarify
the opaque relations that exist between AI and the city, as well as
how to make sense of these relations from a theoretical
perspective. Artificial Intelligence and the City offers a
state-of-the-art analysis and review of AI urbanism, from its roots
to its global emergence. It cuts across several disciplines and
will be a useful resource for undergraduates and postgraduates in
the fields of urban studies, urban planning, geography,
architecture, urban design, science and technology, sociology and
politics.
With Asia's cities undergoing unprecedented growth in the 21st
century, lauded the 'urban century' by many, Sustainable Cities in
Asia provides a timely examination of the challenges facing cities
across the continent including some of the projects, approaches and
solutions that are currently being tested. This book uses numerous
case studies, analysing topical issues ranging from city cycling in
India, to green spaces in China, to the use of community-led energy
generation projects in post-Fukushima Japan. Containing
contributions from an international team of scholars, it also takes
a multi-disciplinary approach and draws on examples from a wide
range of countries, including China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Ultimately, by providing a
comprehensive discussion of the broader debates around the shape of
sustainable urbanism, it demonstrates that Asia is one of the most
active regions in terms of the development of sustainable city
strategies. Tackling the contemporary issues of key importance for
sustainability, such as property markets, migration and transport,
this book will appeal to students and scholars of Urban Geography,
Sustainability, Environmental Studies and Asian studies.
With Asia's cities undergoing unprecedented growth in the 21st
century, lauded the 'urban century' by many, Sustainable Cities in
Asia provides a timely examination of the challenges facing cities
across the continent including some of the projects, approaches and
solutions that are currently being tested. This book uses numerous
case studies, analysing topical issues ranging from city cycling in
India, to green spaces in China, to the use of community-led energy
generation projects in post-Fukushima Japan. Containing
contributions from an international team of scholars, it also takes
a multi-disciplinary approach and draws on examples from a wide
range of countries, including China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Ultimately, by providing a
comprehensive discussion of the broader debates around the shape of
sustainable urbanism, it demonstrates that Asia is one of the most
active regions in terms of the development of sustainable city
strategies. Tackling the contemporary issues of key importance for
sustainability, such as property markets, migration and transport,
this book will appeal to students and scholars of Urban Geography,
Sustainability, Environmental Studies and Asian studies.
The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu
Dhabi. These are the most notable attempts at building new
eco-cities to both face up to the 'crises' of the modern world and
to use the city as an engine for transition to a low-carbon
economy.
The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the
promise of optimising urban services through the widespread
application of information and communication technologies was
largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is
occurring via urban projects, policies and visions in hundreds of
cities around the globe. Inside Smart Cities provides real-world
evidence on how local authorities, small and medium enterprises,
corporations, utility providers and civil society groups are
creating smart cities at the neighbourhood, city and regional
scales. Twenty three empirically detailed case studies from the
Global North and South - ranging from Cape Town, Stockholm and Abu
Dhabi to Philadelphia, Hong Kong and Santiago - illustrate the
multiple and diverse incarnations of smart urbanism. The
contributors draw on ideas from urban studies, geography, urban
planning, science and technology studies and innovation studies to
go beyond the rhetoric of technological innovation and reveal the
political, social and physical implications of digitalising the
built environment. Collectively, the practices of smart urbanism
raise fundamental questions about the sustainability, liveability
and resilience of cities in the future. The findings are relevant
to academics, students, practitioners and urban stakeholders who
are questioning how urban innovation relates to politics and place.
The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the
promise of optimising urban services through the widespread
application of information and communication technologies was
largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is
occurring via urban projects, policies and visions in hundreds of
cities around the globe. Inside Smart Cities provides real-world
evidence on how local authorities, small and medium enterprises,
corporations, utility providers and civil society groups are
creating smart cities at the neighbourhood, city and regional
scales. Twenty three empirically detailed case studies from the
Global North and South - ranging from Cape Town, Stockholm and Abu
Dhabi to Philadelphia, Hong Kong and Santiago - illustrate the
multiple and diverse incarnations of smart urbanism. The
contributors draw on ideas from urban studies, geography, urban
planning, science and technology studies and innovation studies to
go beyond the rhetoric of technological innovation and reveal the
political, social and physical implications of digitalising the
built environment. Collectively, the practices of smart urbanism
raise fundamental questions about the sustainability, liveability
and resilience of cities in the future. The findings are relevant
to academics, students, practitioners and urban stakeholders who
are questioning how urban innovation relates to politics and place.
In 2007, the Pontine Marshes, are very much part of the Italian
national landscape. A traveller who takes a Eurostar train from
Rome to Naples will pass through the marshes, which are a marshland
only in name (Agro Pontino in Italian). It is hard to see the
landscape of the Pontine Marshes and to simultaneously cast a
historical eye back eighty years to when the area was avoided by
people. It is hard to realize, today, that the Pontine Marshes were
the focus for an extraordinary national land reclamation and
urbanization project during Mussolini's fascist regime. Between
1930 and 1939, the marshes became the target of massive national
investment, internal migration (often non-voluntary) and
engineering work. In the 1930s, the Pontine Marshes became key
protagonists in national culture: featured in newsreels, newspapers
and propaganda, they became a metaphor for the regime's modernizing
drive and ambition to create a new Italy where one had not been
able to exist before. In particular, the regime's planners clamored
to create New Towns in the reclaimed marshes; these were to be
planned along fascist lines, and populated with selected colonists
from the north. Written by an Oxford University professor Federico
Caprotti, this book is about the Pontine Marshes project and brings
together cohesive strands of research which have not appeared
alongside one another before. For example, the book explores the
architectural and urban planning aspects of the totalitarian minds
which devised and built the New Towns; the lived experience of the
'colonists' who were forced to populate the new cities; the
technological aspects which made the project possible, such as the
fight against malaria, seen by fascism to be a 'non-totalitarian'
disease; and finally, the promotion of the Pontine Marshes project
through the press and film. Mussolini Cities will be a welcome
addition for collections in Geography and Italian Studies.
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