Urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the smart city, say researchers

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Mar 25, 2026, 5:40 pm130 ptsTrending
Jun Zhang and colleagues have published a new article in Urban Geography arguing that urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the smart city. Instead, it shows that AI urbanism is a contested political and discursive formation—a set of truth-claims about what AI is, what it can…

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