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| Title | From Smart To Autonomous Cities On The Eve Of Ai: Some Provocations For Architects And Designers |
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| ID_Doc | 27295 |
| Authors | Williams T.; Watts A.; Whalley A. |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism for a Sustainable, Living Planet |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003384113-20 |
| Abstract | Most people on our planet increasingly live in cities and towns. For those who plan, design, deliver, and manage the built environment, they have become prime sites of creativity and production, real and virtual. In practice, architects and designers working in urban environments do so in three core contexts. The continuing evolution of the city’s physical fabric, core supporting networks, and planning and zoning frameworks. Changing environmental policies and shifting public priorities. Revolution in technology, digital networks, devices, and data-driven enterprises and services. In identifying these three contexts, we do not suggest that the potential of all is being fully realized or that interactions and integrations between them are fully explored. Instead, this chapter contends that Architecture and design have not always fully exploited the possibilities of the digital toolkit. Smart City initiatives have not been systematically pursued by as many cities as first envisaged. Opportunities for integration of smart buildings, smart precincts, and smart green infrastructure with Smart City systems and data-driven city governance have been implemented patchily. The arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, into city design, infrastructure, and management systems has resulted in a new combination that is being termed ‘Urban AI’ (Luusua et al., 2023). We suggest progress toward realizing Smart City objectives has been uneven and modest, particularly in cities of ‘the West.' This will have implications for tech adoption and future professional practice in built environments. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Mitra Kanaani individual chapters, the contributors. |
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