Artificial Intelligence and the City

"""One of the great puzzles of modernity involves the way new technologies change the very systems that spawn them. Artificial Intelligence and the City brings together a diverse array of ideas that show how digital developments from autonomous vehicles, drones and robots to platform economies and predictive policing, are changing the way we behave and the regulations we are inventing to contain them. This is the first book to provide an integrated picture of the new landscape of urban artificial intelligences, one that we will all need to navigate on the road to the future. Essential reading for all who are attempting to understand the critical challenges of AI."" Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London ""The advent of generative AI and deep learning algorithms has undercut and transcended the concept and technical practice of the so-called smart city. With Artificial Intelligence and the City the shift from smart ontologies to AI logics of the urban is explored across multiple case studies, from urban drones to autonomous vehicles in the city. A timely and important intervention."" Louise Amoore, Professor of Political Geography, Durham University ""Artificial intelligence is transforming the socio-technical characteristics of cities under late modernity. This vital collection of essays presents multiple vantage points from which to reflect on emerging articulations between AI and urban space."" Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge. ""By departing from the polemic that typifies explorations of artificial intelligences, this book is a well-structured and thoughtfully curated volume on the interrelationships between AI and cities. This welcome departure from smart urbanism explores the textures of urban AI at varying scales and geographic contexts, and offers the reader many stories of caution and hope by exploring, not only how the city is influenced by autonomous vehicles, robotics, platforms and algorithms, but also how it reframes and reorders these socio-technical relations."" Nancy Odendaal, Professor in City Planning, University of Cape Town ""This timely book provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking analysis of urban AI, examining in detail the workings and implications of autonomous vehicles, robotics, and AI-enabled platforms and services for city life. Richly illustrated with case studies, it is an essential guide to our emerging sentient cities."" Rob Kitchin, Professor of Human Geography, Maynooth University ""In this fantastic contribution to the field of Urban AI, the authors outline the plethora of issues pertaining to the era of urban artificial intelligence that is now upon us. They present the many ways in which AI and robotics have entered into urban spaces while reminding the reader that such techno-urban symbiosis is not new, and thus deserves careful consideration for the short and long term implications on the fabric of the city. For any reader interested in (sustainable) AI and the future of cities, this book is sure to open one's eyes to the many ways in which cities have become experimental testing sites for AI with implications for those living in cities, for the structure of the city, and for the future of AI."" Aimee van Wynsberghe, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Applied Ethics for AI, University of Bonn"