| Title |
Conditions for Emergence and Evolutionary Planning in Urban AI-Integrated Cities - With a Focus on Luhmann’s Systems Theory and Jane Jacobs’s Urban Thought |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.38195/judik.2026.06.27.3.39 |
| Keywords |
Urban AI 융합 도시; 창발; 제인 제이콥스; 니클라스 루만; 진화적 계획이론 Urban AI-integrated city; Emergence; Jane Jacobs; Niklas Luhmann; Evolutionary Planning Theory |
| Abstract |
This study reconceptualizes Urban AI not as a tool for automating or streamlining urban operations, but as an evolutionary selection device that supports urban emergence. By combining Jane Jacobs’s urban thought with Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, it interprets urban space as a medium of communication and examines the urban emergence, urban operations, and planning systems. Urban AI can foster emergence by detecting weak signals and broadening the exploration of urban variations. Yet it may also reduce multiple values and temporal horizons to a single metric, or prematurely classify novel variations as abnormal or inappropriate. Planning should therefore move beyond the pursuit of optimal solutions and develop protocols that connect the three urban systems in ways conducive to emergence. |