The Future of the Automated City: Social, Technical and Ethical Perspectives

The previous chapter discussed particular issues in relation to Automated Vehicles, urban robots and urban drones. This chapter discusses visions, perspectives and challenges of the Automated City more generally, including aspirational visions of future cities, what must be overcome or addressed towards a favourable notion of the Automated City, and issues of governance, new business models, city transportation, sustainability, real-time tracking, urban edge computing, blockchain, technical challenges of cooperation, and trust, fairness and ethics in relation to AI and algorithms in the city—we elaborate on the last two aspects in more detail.