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"There is a long history of planned city building by both governments and the
private sector from Brasilia to Islamabad.
More recently, two trends have come together in a new wave of visionary urban
planning.
On the one hand, there are the neoliberal “special economic zone” policies that
accelerated in the 1980s and which have become an almost unquestioned global
economic article of faith. On the other, there is the “smart city” in which
ubiquitous sensing and surveillance generate big data, from which solutions to
all the problems of cities are supposed to be found.
Now, with the fairy dust of Artificial Intelligence (AI) sprinkled on top, we
have the recipe for almost every current proposal for new cities. In essence,
the contemporary ideal city is a data-driven, free-market paradise."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
