Automating cities : design, construction, operation and future impact
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Automating cities : design, construction, operation and future impact
(Advances in 21st century human settlements)
Springer, c2021
- : pbk
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Description
This book highlights the latest advancements in the use of automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future of the built environment and its occupants. It considers how the use of automated decision-making frameworks, artificial intelligence and other technologies of automation are presently impacting the practice of architects, engineers, project managers and contractors, and articulates the near future changes to workflows, legal frameworks and the wider AEC industry. This book surveys and compiles the use of city apps, robots that operate buildings and fabricate structural elements, 3D printing, drones, sensors, algorithms, and advanced prefabricated modules. The book also contributes to the growing literature on smart cities, and explores the impacts on data privacy and data sovereignty that arise through the use of sensors, digital twins and intelligent transport systems. It provides a useful reference for further research and development in the area of automation in design and construction to architects, engineers, project managers, superintendents and construction lawyers, contractors, policy makers, and students.
Table of Contents
Part A - The Machine Metropolis
1. Introduction to the Automated City
2. Smart Homes, Data collection, Information Fiduciaries and Privacy
3. Smart Cities, Public Policy and the Law
Part B - Automating the design process
4. BIM and its potential as the next generation digital assistant in urban automation
5. Artificial Intelligence and the design of urban environments (which will cover AI and engineering and architecture)
6. Crowdsourced City Design and the robotic architect: a case study of Sidewalk Labs in Toronto
7. Machine Logic, Social Theory and the design of the Automated City
Part C - Construction
8. Robotic construction in inhospitable environments
9. Modularity and new ways of living in the city: floating cities, arctic cities and underground cities
10. Digital assistants, machine superintendence of building contracts in the construction industry
11. Automation and Public Private Partnerships
Part D - Operating the Automated Infrastructure of a City
12. Smart grids, smart services (waste management etc)
13. BIM, Operation and Maintenance and robots
14. Intelligent transport systems and impacts of smart transport on the city
by "Nielsen BookData"