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Book SynopsisThis 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 also 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. Trade Review"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 "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 Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introducing AI into Urban Studies Section 1 – Autonomous Vehicles and Mobility Chapter 2: Reinforcing and Refracting Automobility: Urban Experimentation with Autonomous Vehicles Chapter 3: Trials and Tribulations: Who Learns What from Urban Experiments with Self-driving Vehicles? Chapter 4: Autonomous Lorries, Artificial Intelligence and Urban (Freight) Mobilities Chapter 5: An Urbanistic Take on Autonomous Vehicles Chapter 6: A Roadmap for the Sustainable Deployment of Autonomous Vehicles: Superblocks Driving Cars out of Neighbourhoods Section 2 – Urban Robots and Robotic Spaces Chapter 7: Regulating and Making Space for the Expanded Field of Urban RoboticsChapter 8: Everyday Droning: Uneven Experiences of Drone-enabled AI Urbanism Chapter 9: Exploring Temporal Pleats and Folds: the Role of Urban AI and Robotics in Reinvigorating the Cyborg City Chapter 10: Robots in AI Urbanism Chapter 11: Airport Robots: Automation, Everyday Life and the Futures of Urbanism Section 3 – City Brains and Urban Platforms Chapter 12: Ambient Commons? Valuing Urban Public Spaces in an Era of AI-Enabled Ambient Computing Chapter 13: Encountering Limits in Cooperative Platforms: the More-Than-Technical Labour of Urban AI Chapter 14: Performed Imaginaries of the AI-Controlled City: Conducting Urban AI Experimentation in China Chapter 15: Optimizing the Immeasurable: on the Techno-Ethical Limits of Predictive Policing Chapter 16: Chinese Artificial Intelligence Governance Platforms 2.0: the Belt and Road Edition Section 4 – Urban Software Agents and Algorithms Chapter 17: Perceptions of Intelligence in Urban AI and the Contingent Logics of Real Estate Estimate Algorithms Chapter 18: Caring is Connecting: AI Digital Assistants and the Surveillance of Elderly and Disabled Family Members in the Home Chapter 19: AI Doctors or AI for Doctors? Augmenting Urban Healthcare Services Through Artificial Intelligence Chapter 20: Algorithms and Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Housing Market Chapter 21: Architectural AI: Urban Artificial Intelligence in Architecture and Design Chapter 22: Conclusions: The Present of Urban AI and the Future of Cities

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city, second the smart city and third the autonomous city intended as a place where existing smart technologies are evolving into artificial intelligences that are taking the management of the city out of the hands of humans.The book empirically explores Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong to provide a critical analysis of eco and smart city experiments and their sustainability, and it draws on numerous real-life examples to illustrate the rise of urban artificial intelligences across different geographical spaces and scales. Theoretically, the book traverses philosophy, urban studies and planning theory to explain the passage from eco and smart cities to the autonomous city, and to reflect on the meaning and purpose of cities in a time when human and non-biological intelligences are irreversibly colliding in the built environment.Iconoclastic and prophetic, Frankenstein Urbanism is both an examination of the evolution of urban experimentation through the lens of Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein, and a warning about an urbanism whose product resembles Frankensteinâs monster: a fragmented entity which escapes human control and human understanding. Academics, students and practitioners will find in this book the knowledge that is necessary to comprehend and engage with the many urban experiments that are now alive, ready to leave the laboratory and enter our cities.Trade Review'Federico Cugurullo draws inspiration and an analytical framing from Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to examine what he terms Frankenstein urbanism: experimental urban development designed to create sustainability that emerges with monstrous effects. His analysis is a powerful critique of the discursive and material creation of eco-cities, smart cities, and the coming autonomous city.'Rob Kitchin, Professor of Human Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland'In Frankenstein Urbanism, Cugurullo masterfully combines science fiction literature with an analysis of real-life cities, to show that fiction and reality are indistinguishable in our quest for autonomous urban futures. This is a theoretically bold and empirically rich book that illustrates how the current obsession about sentient cities is built upon the grand utopian gestures of smart and eco-city experiments turning into Frankenstein monsters. This book will be essential reading material for all those interested in the theory of urban futures as well as in the practical future of smart urbanism.'Ayona Datta, Professor in Human Geography, University College London, UK'Does the new smart urbanity create a sort of Frankenstein monster, built with good intentions but turning against its masters? This book demonstrates that the only way out of the nightmare of Frankenstein urbanism is to begin loving our monsters. Leaving the city in the hands of technocrats only leads to a monstrous urbanism. That is why a public and politically engaging urbanity is urgently required. And this is precisely what the lessons of this book implore us to do.'Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, The University of Manchester, UK'In this outstanding volume, Federico Cugurullo examines how humanity’s search for ideal cities- with their corresponding ideal societies- at times produces monsters. Frankenstein is an apt metaphor because, like the monster, the experimental forms of urbanism that Cugurullo discusses are terrifying but also very much alive. Well-documented case-studies in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong explore the ambiguities and elitism of smart cities, perhaps the most salient manifestation of experimental urbanism. Cugurullo masterfully explains the futility and dangers of technological innovation without an overarching vision of urban futures. However, he argues that, rather than rejecting technology, we should approach it cautiously within a collective inquiry into the type of city that we want.Vanesa Castán Broto, Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UK'By mobilising a narrative of monstrosity, Frankenstein Urbanism builds a stunningly effective critique of the contemporary literatures, practices and consequences of the smart city. A compelling and vivid contemplation of some of the most pressing concerns about technology, its related ideologies, and the current condition of our cities.'Alberto Vanolo, Professor of Political and Economic Geography, Università di Torino, Italy'Frankenstein Urbanism is a profound critique of smart and eco-cities and of the recent city of artificial intelligence. Federico Cugurullo remarkably discovers that the rationale for making these cities is analogically similar to the experiment that creates Frankenstein’s monster. Focusing on Masdar City and Hong Kong, the book provocatively rethinks what urbanism is in the technologically oriented initiatives transforming our cities.' Fulong Wu, Bartlett Chair of Planning, University College London, UK'Viewing city development through the lens of Shelley’s early science fiction makes for good storytelling as well as thoughtful analysis of the case studies of Masdar City and Hong Kong. Like many portrayals of future cities, this is a dystopian tale and a fascinating journey for planning practitioners or academics interested in the past, present, or future structure of cities. Cugurullo’s Frankenstein holds open the chances for us to better understand our assumptions, improve upon the science, or choose not to experiment at all.'Thomas W. Sanchez, Journal of the American Planning Association'Frankenstein Urbanism represents an ambitious blend of theory and fieldwork. The book traces the far-reaching ancestries of contemporary imaginaries and charts an important and measured path forward for both theorists and practitioners of the urban. Throughout, references to Shelley’s Frankenstein serve as more than a simple metaphor, clarifying the stakes of urban experiments in a visceral and insightful way.'Nathan Olmstead, Urban Studies Journal Table of Contents1. Prologue: of cities and monsters Part 1: The Literature 2. Theories of ecological urbanism 3. Theories of smart urbanism Part 2: The Experiment 4. An eco-city experiment: the case of Masdar City 5. A smart-city experiment: the case of Hong Kong Part 3: The Apocalypse 6. Urban equations come alive 7. Artificial Intelligence and the rise of the autonomous city 8. Epilogue: the eclipse of urban reason

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