Technological innovation is constantly reshaping the materiality and mechanics of smart-city
initiatives. Recently, innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) in the shape of self-driving cars …

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that
preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our …

We analyse an urban platform (Alibaba's City Brain) to show how smart city development is
evolving in urban China. In order to do so, we base our analysis on two strands of literature …

The data-driven approach to sustainable urban development is becoming increasingly
popular among the cities across the world. This is due to cities' attention in supporting smart …

Community-level interventions through technological updates and connectedness are quite
popular within smart city visions. These interventions, under the collective label of smart and …

Since the late 2000s, the city of Nairobi in Kenya has become a focal point of large-scale
and ambitious technology-driven city making processes and ambitions. In this study, we …

This review critically approaches the literature on smart cities while describing the
significance of more value‐based rationality and more reflexive practice for constructing …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast, dispersed system in which a diverse array of
objects, humans, and other living things is connected via “smart” technologies and the …

Urban planning is, in many countries, increasingly becoming intertwined with local climate
ambitions, investments in urban attractiveness and “smart city” innovation measures. In the …

The paper analyses the varieties of smart urbanism to be found in the contemporary urban
landscape in the UK. In so doing, it builds on and extends two currently dominant sets of …