Smart Spaces and Places

<p>Smart technologies have advanced rapidly throughout our society (e.g. smart energy smart health smart living smart cities smart environment and smart society) and across geographic spaces and places. Behind these smart developments are a number of seminal drivers such as social media (e.g. Twitter) sensors (drones wearables) smartphone apps and computing infrastructure (e.g. cloud computing). These developments have captured the enthusiasm of the public while inevitably present unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the geographic research community. When meeting the smart challenges are there emerging theories methods and observations that reveal new spatial phenomena produce new knowledge and foster new policies?</p><p>Smart Spaces and Places addresses questions such as how to make spaces and places smart how the smartness affects the way we think spaces and places and what role geographies play in knowledge production and decision-making in a smart era. The collection of 21 chapters offers stimulating discussion over the meaning of spaces places and smartness; scientific insights into smartness; social-political views of smartness; and policy implications of smartness.</p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of <i>Annals of the American Association of Geographers.</i></p>