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