Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : our brave new world

Part I. Histories and futures

2. Frictionless futures : the vision of smartness and the occlusion of alternatives

3. Is the city becoming computable?

4. The answer is "smart" - but what was the question? About some properties of utopian conceptualization

5. The trouble with capitalist utopia : a totalizing scheme of subsumption and planetary urbanization

6. The metaphor of the city as a thinking machine : a complicated relationship and its backstory

Part II. Agency and control

7. Hyperwwwork : is Alexa our new chief of happiness officer? IoT and the logics of soft-production

8. Soft sibylations : GPS navigation as urban speculation

9. Intelligence and armament

10. The right to the (smart) city, participation and open data

11. Scenarios of interactive citizenship

Part III. Materialities and spaces

12. The IdIoT in the smart home

13. Five strategies of socially smart cities

14. Politics of sensing and listening

15. Recoupling soft and hard : engaging data as an immaterial practice

16. Moving in the metropolis : smart city solutions and the urban everyday experience

Part IV. Networks and nodes

17. Standing out in a crowd : big data to produce new forms of publicness

18. Operationalizing smartness : from social bridges to an urbanism of aspirations, affordances and capabilities

19. New sensorial vehicles : navigating critical understanding of autonomous futures