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The Automated City: Concept and Metaphors

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This chapter reviews the notion (and visions) of the Automated City in popular press, and in research publications, and then attempts to outline a conceptualisation of the Automated City. We first discuss what form the Automated City can take, from a mainly technological perspective. But a city is really constituted by its human inhabitants. We then discuss the Automated City in relation to its inhabitants via metaphors as guiding lenses through which one can view and shape developments towards a vision of the humane Automated City.

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    For example, see https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/20/automated-city-robots-run-public-services-councils [last accessed: 9/7/2020].

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    Just for illustration, one might remember HAL (Heuristically Programmed ALgorithmic Computer) in the 1968 move 2001: A Space Odyssey, which controls the spacecraft and interacts with the ship’s inhabitants—though kee** in mind this is science fiction.

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Loke, S.W., Rakotonirainy, A. (2021). The Automated City: Concept and Metaphors. In: The Automated City. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82318-4_2

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