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The emerging autonomous smart city and its impacts on planning and power relations in late capitalism

In: Handbook on Planning and Power

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  • Elham Bahmanteymouri
  • Mohsen Mohammadzadeh

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This chapter explores how the advancement of cybernetic technologies, particularly urban automation, significantly transforms power relations in late capitalism. Smart gadgets, sensors, and the Internet of Things (IoTs) continuously collect and compile a large amount of data (i.e., Big Data) from all aspects of cities and their residents’ everyday lives. The most important success of artificial intelligence (AI) applications is their self-directed agency, which allows them to make decisions based on the predictions produced by their autonomous self-learned analysis of urban Big Data. International IT companies are developing these new technologies in collaboration with governments and their agencies to use in cities as part of urban automation. This chapter deploys a post-structural approach derived from _i_ekian ideological deconstruction to investigate what urban automation means for planning knowledge, particularly in terms of the power relations within techno-capitalism.

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  • Elham Bahmanteymouri & Mohsen Mohammadzadeh, 2023. "The emerging autonomous smart city and its impacts on planning and power relations in late capitalism," Chapters, in: Michael Gunder & Kristina Grange & Tanja Winkler (ed.), Handbook on Planning and Power, chapter 21, pages 321-338, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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