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I'm Joni Baboci, a dad, architect, planner, knowledge-seeker and all-around urban enthusiast. I'm currently focused on building Layer, an urban orchestration platform that enables cities to plan, design, manage and govern urban environments. I have previously served as the General Director of Planning and Urban Development for the City of Tirana and the director of Atelier Albania, a structure of the Albanian government dealing with national and regional strategic planning; I have executed planning, design & development projects at different scales at the national, regional and local levels. I consult on urbanism and planning for various cultural and multilateral institutions.I'm Joni Baboci, a dad, architect, ...more

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artificial intelligence and urban planning | thinkthinkthink #26

This issue on artificial intelligence and planning is 978 words long and it takes ~3.5 minutes to read. I hope you enjoy it.

Static urban planning is dead. It ignores complexity, cherry-picks data, and generates urban fabric that cannot adapt. Even in governance systems with data-driven decision making, at best, the context is too narrow to cover the breadth of information needed to account for

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Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America

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Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“IF you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. However, while you have been reading the book, you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy, in the form of food, into disordered energy, in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat. This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units - or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain - and that's if you remember everything in this book.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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