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Urban Governance
Institutional choices involving space, data, power and public life.
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01Should Local AI Grants Reward Adoption or Better Lives?The UK's proposed local AI partnerships raise a public-spending question: what should count as success when a place adopts AI, and who gets left out?Oct 25, 20266 min read02Future City Governance: Does Better AI Management Make Us Freer?AI can help manage transport, energy, public safety and services. But governance goes beyond optimization: who sets the goals, how can residents object, and who answers for mistakes?Oct 15, 20265 min read03Future Cities and Nature: From Reducing Harm to Ecological RestorationSustainability often begins with doing less harm. Can cities go further by restoring land, waterways and habitats, building climate resilience and designing for other species?Oct 15, 20265 min read04Future City Transport: Can We Reduce the Need to Travel?Future transport must address more than speed and congestion. M.K. considers how transit, freight, automation and mobility privacy could give residents more time and choice.Oct 15, 20265 min read05If AI Governs More Efficiently, Should People Give Up the Decision?Better analysis is not automatic permission to govern. M.K. follows public decisions from agenda and metrics to alternatives and revocation, asking how efficiency can coexist with self-government.Oct 14, 20265 min read06Autonomous Machines in Public Life: Who Gains, Who Pays?A machine's purchase price does not capture its public costs. M.K. examines shared space, maintenance, withdrawal and the chain of responsibility behind autonomous services.Oct 14, 20265 min read07Will Robotaxis Reduce Traffic? Follow the Empty MilesA driverless car may improve dispatch without freeing road space. Ride-hail evidence, empty mileage, occupancy and transit substitution show what cities need to measure.Oct 13, 20266 min read08From Garden Cities to AI Civilization: Why Future Cities Continue to Interest MeFrom Garden Cities and eyes on the street to climate resilience and AI governance, this essay traces the urban ideas that inform Neo Babylon.Jul 21, 202610 min read
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