URBAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE aims to stimulate a debate on these issues across scholars and experts engaging in the domain of AI applied to cities, or grappling with the challenges and problems that the introduction of AI in cities generates. Within this view, it welcomes works presenting and discussing the potentiality of developing AI for cities, and the consequences of using AI on the relationship between the city and society, on the functioning of socio-technical systems, and on the relationship between natural and artificial as well as human and non-human animals, and the variety of multi-agent interactions that are intrinsic to cities.

This issue of Contesti is open to theoretical, methodological and descriptive contributions (case studies, approaches, territorial policies) on the following topics (non-exhaustive):

Approaches

• Approaches and experiments in the field of AI applied to cities
• Planning and AI
• The emergence and evolution of urban AI
• Urban ontology and AI

Tools and practices

• AI in planning
• Data-driven Urban Intelligence (big data, data analytics, semantic computing, etc.): digital twins, urban control rooms, etc.
• Plans and projects supported or produced with AI
• Urban policies and AI
• The perspectives of Italian, European (see, for example, EU AI Act), and other international institutions regarding AI in urban settings: practices, challenges, issues, and limitations.

Ethics, opportunities and challenges

• Limits and opportunities presented by various approaches to AI for research on cities, service and infrastructure management, or urban and territorial design/planning.
• What ethics exist between utopia and dystopia for the post-human?
• What narrative/rhetoric accompanies the digital transformation?

The issue is co-edited by the Critical Planning and Design Laboratory of the University of Florence (Camilla Perrone chair, Giulia Guadagnoli) and the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) – Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR) (Stefano Borgo, chair).

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