Urban scAInce: why and how cities transform through artificial intelligence and their associated technologies

The project aims to assess the impact of AI and smart technologies on urban sustainability by correlating historical data, evaluating AI solutions, and creating a virtual open science city for collaborative change.

Subsidie
€ 1.998.348
2023

Projectdetails

Introduction

Innovations have largely been the driver of human development, with the current Anthropocene peaking humanity’s influence on the livability of our planet. Technology is believed to be, once again, the solution to severe environmental, economic, and social crises, even though its implementation has a mixed track record of finding solutions just to create new and sometimes more severe problems [8].

Research Question

We ask whether more sustainable cities are smarter. Therefore, we will develop the urban scAInce theory, transforming our understanding of how artificial intelligence and its associated technologies have, can, and will alter urban systems. This will involve questioning whether the technology transformation leads to more sustainable living in our cities.

Methodology

We will achieve this goal by:

  1. Historically correlating urban sustainability outcomes with smart city technology adoption.
  2. Evaluating privately-driven AI solutions on their impact to create more sustainable cities through a pre/post study.
  3. Evaluating whether future cities will be sustainable by inaugurating a virtual open science city that allows its residents living across the world to jointly change their virtual environment.
  4. Estimating the sustainability gap of 41,000 cities through analyzed archetype cities.

Financiële details & Tijdlijn

Financiële details

Subsidiebedrag€ 1.998.348
Totale projectbegroting€ 1.998.348

Tijdlijn

Startdatum1-11-2023
Einddatum31-10-2028
Subsidiejaar2023

Partners & Locaties

Projectpartners

  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADTpenvoerder

Land(en)

Germany

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