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Balancing Efficiency and Equity: Ethical Considerations for Automation in Urban Planning

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eetsc.6208,
        author={Abhishek Raisinghani and Vandit Mehta},
        title={Balancing Efficiency and Equity: Ethical Considerations for Automation in Urban Planning},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities},
        volume={7},
        number={4},
        publisher={EAI},
        journal_a={SC},
        year={2025},
        month={2},
        keywords={Automation, efficiency, equity, ethics, urban planning},
        doi={10.4108/eetsc.6208}
    }
    
  • Abhishek Raisinghani
    Vandit Mehta
    Year: 2025
    Balancing Efficiency and Equity: Ethical Considerations for Automation in Urban Planning
    SC
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eetsc.6208
Abhishek Raisinghani1,*, Vandit Mehta1
  • 1: School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal
*Contact email: abhi90raisinghani@gmail.com

Abstract

The integration of automation into urban planning introduces a complex dynamic where efficiency often clashes with equity, especially for marginalized communities. This necessitates a delicate balance between these two aspects. This article investigates the ethical principles and equity considerations in urban planning decisions, revealing a historical and contemporary bias towards efficiency, marginalizing certain groups. Automation, while beneficial in sectors like transportation, land use, and infrastructure, can perpetuate existing inequities and pose ethical challenges such as algorithmic bias and data privacy concerns. The article explores the impacts of automation on plan execution and monitoring, highlighting the need for current best practices to address these challenges. It provides an overview of automation in urban planning and calls for continuous research, collaboration, and improvement to ensure efficiency and equity are mutually reinforced.      

Keywords
Automation, efficiency, equity, ethics, urban planning
Received
2024-05-31
Accepted
2025-02-13
Published
2025-02-21
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eetsc.6208

Copyright © 2024 A. Raisinghani and V. Mehta, licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which permits copying, redistributing, remixing, transformation, and building upon the material in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.

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