"Smart City" stands for the promise of a future with a high quality of life for all – but also for a future of surveillance and control of public and private spaces. How does the use of digital technologies and infrastructures change the current perception, production and use of space in cities? page 
BAURIEDL, Sybille and STRÜVER, Anke (eds.), 2018. Smart City: kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten. Bielefeld: Transcript. Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany). ISBN 978-3-8376-4336-7. page
35 urban researchers look at the different assessments of the "smart city" and give an overview of the controversial debate. Using practical examples, they describe the linking of real-time data and the use of geoinformation in everyday urban life and discuss its contribution to sustainable urban development, participatory democracy and social justice in cities. They show: Digital transformation is a contested terrain of IT companies, city governments and urban political movements.
YOUTUBE xB-HN5vebao Smart City | Interview mit S. Bauriedl und A. Strüver | transcript Verlag