AI and Language in the Urban Context : Conversational Artificial Intelligence in Cities (Hardcover)

Introduction: From computer-aided design to conversational AI? 1. Language as urban technology? 2. Scripting the city? 3. Core functions of LLMs in the urban context? 4. Tuning the city? 5. Tokenization? 6. The meaning and use of words? 7. Context windows? 8. Time and order? 9. The attention economy? 10. Urban actors? 11. Panpsychic city? 12. The end of cities? 13. Epilogue: Romancing the conversational city? Glossary and Appendices