Katharine S. Willis is Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at Plymouth University, UK. She is the author of Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World (Routledge, 2016).Alessandro Aurigi is Professor of Urban Design and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Plymouth. He has previously worked at Newcastle University and UCL, UK. His research focuses on the relationships between our increasingly digital society and the ways we conceive, design and manage urban space to enhance and support place quality. He has previously published Making the Digital City and Augmented Urban Spaces (Ashgate).

"Bravo! Smart cities are the latest craze with city governments and industry, yet their guiding vision is often limited to big data analytics and urban science. Willis and Aurigi’s book provides a more holistic picture: a thorough yet accessible coverage of the theoretical, historical and practical contributions made by architecture, human geography, media studies, urban sociology, and other critical fields too often ignored by technocrats. This is required reading for everyone committed to a citizen-centred understanding of digital and smart cities." - Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics, QUT Design Lab, Australia"Finally! A volume that demystifies the smart city phenomenon through systematic and careful evaluation of its application in practice. It also provides a rare and solid genealogy of this oft misinterpreted term." - Nancy Odendaal, Associate Professor at School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Part One01 Chapter One: Definitions and Approaches02 Chapter Two: Historical ContextPart Two03 Chapter Three: Techno-centric Cities04 Chapter Four: Socially constructed digital and smart citiesPart Three05 Chapter Five: Social, cultural and political06 Chapter Six: Economics, globalisation and development07 Chapter Seven: Planning, design and architecture08 Chapter Eight: Mobilities09 Chapter Nine: Governance and participation10 Chapter Ten: From Digital to Smart and BeyondIndex

Katharine S. Willis is Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at Plymouth University, UK. She is the author of Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World (Routledge, 2016).Alessandro Aurigi is Professor of Urban Design and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Plymouth. He has previously worked at Newcastle University and UCL, UK. His research focuses on the relationships between our increasingly digital society and the ways we conceive, design and manage urban space to enhance and support place quality. He has previously published Making the Digital City and Augmented Urban Spaces (Ashgate).

"Bravo! Smart cities are the latest craze with city governments and industry, yet their guiding vision is often limited to big data analytics and urban science. Willis and Aurigi’s book provides a more holistic picture: a thorough yet accessible coverage of the theoretical, historical and practical contributions made by architecture, human geography, media studies, urban sociology, and other critical fields too often ignored by technocrats. This is required reading for everyone committed to a citizen-centred understanding of digital and smart cities." - Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics, QUT Design Lab, Australia"Finally! A volume that demystifies the smart city phenomenon through systematic and careful evaluation of its application in practice. It also provides a rare and solid genealogy of this oft misinterpreted term." - Nancy Odendaal, Associate Professor at School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Part One01 Chapter One: Definitions and Approaches02 Chapter Two: Historical ContextPart Two03 Chapter Three: Techno-centric Cities04 Chapter Four: Socially constructed digital and smart citiesPart Three05 Chapter Five: Social, cultural and political06 Chapter Six: Economics, globalisation and development07 Chapter Seven: Planning, design and architecture08 Chapter Eight: Mobilities09 Chapter Nine: Governance and participation10 Chapter Ten: From Digital to Smart and BeyondIndex