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Climate Change, Rapid Urbanisation, Pandemics, As Well As Innovations In Technologies Such As Blockchain, Ai And Iot Are All Impacting Urban Space. One Response To Such Changes Has Been To Make Cities Ecologically Sustainable And 'smart'. The 'eco Smart City' For Instance Uses Networked Sensing, Cloud And Mobile Computing To Optimise, Control, And Regulate Urban Processes And Resources. From Real-time Bus Information To Autonomous Electric Vehicles, Smart Parking, And Smart Street Lighting, Such Initiatives Are Often Presented As A Social And Environmental Good. Critics, However, Increasingly Argue That Technologically Driven, And Efficiency-led Approaches Are Too Simplistic To Deal With The Complexities Of Urban Life. Sustainability In The Smart City Is Predominantly Performed In Limited Ways That Leave Little Room For Participation And Citizen Agency Despite Government Efforts To Integrate Innovative Technologies In More Equitable Ways. More Importantly, There Is A Growing Awareness That A Human-centred Notion Of Cities, In Which Urban Space Is Designed For, And Inhabited By, Humans Only, Is No Longer Tenable. Within The Age Of The Anthropocene - A Term Used To Refer To A New Geological Era In Which Human Activity Is Transforming Earth Systems, Accelerating Climate Change And Causing Mass Extinctions - Scholars And Practitioners Are Working Generatively By Acknowledging The Entanglements Between Human And Non-human Others (including Plants, Animals, Insects, As Well As Soil, Water, And Sensors And Their Data) In Urban Life. In Designing More-than-human Smart Cities, Renowned Researchers And Practitioners From Urban Planning, Architecture, Environmental Humanities, Geography, Design, Arts, And Computing Critically Explore Smart Cities Beyond A Human-centred Approach. They Respond To The Complex Interrelations Between Human And Non-human Others In Urban Space. Through Theory, Policy And Practice (past And Present), And Thinking Speculatively About How Smart Cities May Evolve In The Future, The Book Makes A Timely Contribution To Lively, Contemporary Scientific And Political Debates On Genuinely Sustainable Smart Cities.--back Cover. Prologue / Carl Disalvo -- Section 1. Cultures. 1. Infrastructural Frictions: Care, Shadows And Ruins In Multispecies Smart Cities / Donna Houston, Jessica Mclean, Natalie Osborne; 2. From 'smart City' To Wise City? Thinking With Ecology, Water, And Hydrocitizenship / Owain Jones; 3. Reciprocities Of Decay, Destruction, And Designing / Yoko Akama; 4. Crossing Abyssal Lines: Telling Stories To Understand Decolonial Perspectives For More-than-human Futures / Manuela Taboada, Jane Turner Section 2. Practices. 5. Participatory Design For Multispecies Cohabitation: By Trees, For Birds, With Humans / Alexander Holland, Stanislav Roudavski; 6. Exploring More-than-human Smart Cities: The Emergent Logic Of A Design Workbook / Bill Gaver [and Others]; 7. Bugs In The Smart City: A Proposal For Going Upstream In Human-mosquito Co-becoming / Jonathan Metzger, Jean Hillier; 8. Designing Data Dramas To Build Empathy To Nature Through Collective Acts / Annika Wolff, Allan Owens, Lasse Kantola Section 3. Justice. 9. Justice By Design: The Case For Equitable And Inclusive Smart Cities For Animal Dwellers / Clara Mancini, Daniel Metcalfe, Orit Hirsch-matsioulas; 10. De-centring In More-than-human Design: A Provocation On Spatial Justice And Urban Conflict In Palestine / Mennatullah Hendawy, Shaimaa Lazem, Rachel Clarke; 11. How Can Anyone Be More Than One Thing? Dialogues On More-than-humanity In The Smart City / Alison Powell, Alex Taylor Section 4. Futures. 12. A City Of Good Ancestors: Urban Governance And Design From A Relationist Ethos / Mary Graham, Michelle Maloney, Marcus Foth; 13. Informed By Microbes: Biofilms As A Platform For The Bio-digital City / Rachel Armstrong; 14. Intimate Translations: Transforming The Urban Imagination / Ann Light, Lara Houston, Ruth Catlow; 15. More-than-human Biographies: Designing For Their Endings / Ron Wakkary -- Epilogue. Six Lessons For A More-than-human 'smart' City From A Disabled Cyborg / Laura Forlano. Edited By Sara Heitlinger, Marcus Foth, Rachel Clarke. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.