Privatization of urban planning?

Can big business plan cities through technology and automation? 

Audi’s goal is to limit “the number of cars on the streets to create more people-friendly urban spaces”  from: http://www.archdaily.com/777791/smart-moves-for-cities-the-urban-mobility-revolution-will-start-with-these-3-projects

Can Google really build a better city by "fix urban problems by starting from scratch and building new cities than trying to revitalize existing towns"?  from: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/google-s-parent-company-probably-wants-to-build-a-cit-1769181473

But will allowing big business to plan cities lead to privatization of more and more public spaces?  Public open space is usually "the place where cities get 'remade' is in the public rather than private sphere. Part of the problem, then, with privately owned public spaces – open-air squares, gardens and parks that look public but are not – is that the rights of the citizens using them are severely hemmed in”

from: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-owned-public-space-cities-direct-action

This issue will be more important with the rise of public-private partnerships, like in 2009 when Canada was leading by example: “Since 2002, British Columbia has pumped nearly $10 billion (Canadian; US$8.1 billion) into infrastructure financing – 50 percent of it supplied by the private sector.”  from: http://www.planetizen.com/node/38418 

Only time will tell if these spaces are just funded, planned and/or governed by big business.