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"This publication is about urban life and the urbanizing process in the context of more aware people interacting with more aware technologies, contributing to understandings of the ambient turn in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities embracing rethinking of more sustainable and livable approaches to urban life in terms of research and practice"--

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Smart City Perspectives, Spaces for People, and a Hybrid Study Approach -- Chapter 1: Perspectives on Smart Cities -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Background -- 1.2.1 Definitions -- Smart Cities -- Perceive, See, Seeing, and Transparent -- Urban and Ambient Theory -- 1.2.2 Objectives -- 1.3 Seeing through Smart Cities: A Theoretical Perspective -- 1.3.1 Emerging Technologies & -- Smart Cities -- 1.3.2 Urban Theory & -- Smart Cities -- 1.3.3 People and Smart Cities -- 1.3.4 Disruptive and Contested Nature of Smart City Initiatives -- 1.3.5 Summary -- 1.3.6 Conceptual Framework for Seeing Smart Cities Through a Multi-dimensional Lens -- 1.4 Smart Cities and Associated Challenges and Opportunities -- 1.4.1 Seeing Through Smart Cities and Associated Challenges -- 1.4.2 Seeing Through Smart Cities and Associated Opportunities -- 1.4.3 Methodology -- 1.5 Explorations for Practice and Research -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Sensing as Seeing -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background -- 2.2.1 Definitions -- Actors -- Agency -- Instrumentality -- Sense -- Sensing -- Success -- 2.3 Sensing as Spaces for People: A Theoretical Perspective -- 2.3.1 Sensing and Smart Cities -- 2.3.2 Spaces for People and Smart Cities -- 2.3.3 Agency and Smart Cities -- 2.3.4 Emotion/Affect and Smart Cities -- 2.3.5 Summary -- 2.3.6 Conceptual Framework for Sensing in Smart Cities -- 2.4 Methodology -- 2.4.1 Process -- 2.4.2 Sources of Evidence -- 2.4.3 Data Analysis -- 2.5 Findings -- 2.5.1 Quantitatively Assessing Sensing in Smart Cities -- 2.5.2 Qualitatively Speaking: What People Said about Sensing -- 2.6 Discussion of Findings for Seeing as Sensing -- 2.7 Limitations, Mitigations, and Implications -- 2.7.1 Implications for Practice and Research.