Inside Smart Cities provides real world evidence on how local authorities, small and medium enterprises, corporations, utility providers and civil society groups are creating smart cities at the neighbourhood, city and regional scales.

1 Introduction: situating smart cities PART 1 - GROUNDING AND CONTEXTUALISING 2 Realising smart cities: partnerships and economic development in the emergence and practices of smart in Newcastle, Australia 3 Dissecting the Frankenstein city: an examination of smart urbanism in Hong Kong 4 Ordinary Chinese smart cities: the case of Wuhan 5 The free zone and smart-global urbanization in Philadelphia PART 2 - INTEGRATING AND ALIGNING 6 Actually-existing Smart Dublin: exploring smart city development in history and context 7 Smart cities as strategic actors: insights from EU Lighthouse projects in Stavanger, Stockholm, and Nottingham 8 Smart goes green: digitalising environmental agendas in Bristol and Manchester 9 Smart urbanism and the visibility and reconfiguration of infrastructure and public action in the French cities of Issy-les-Moulineaux and Nice 10 The transnational smart city as urban eco-modernisation: the case of Masdar City in Abu Dhabi PART 3 - CONTRADICTING AND CHALLENGING 11 Acknowledging the idiot in the smart city: experimentation and citizenship in the making of a low-carbon district in Santiago de Chile 12 A smart equivocation: co-laboration and subsidiarity in Munich's smart city consortium 13 Parramatta Smart City and the quest to build Australia's next great city 14 From participation to startup urbanisation: re-situating open data in Lisbon PART 4 - EXPERIENCING AND ENCOUNTERING 15 Barcelona: from corporate smart city to technological sovereignty 16 Smart innovation at the margins: learning from Cape Town and Kibera 17 Innovating for an aging society: insights from two Japanese smart cities 18 Life in smart Seoul: the female factor 19 Conclusions: the long and unsettled future of smart cities