ABSTRACT
Urban environments all over the world are becoming saturated with a variety of technologies, giving rise to a whole range of unforeseen possibilities and challenges. Proponents of smart city thinking emphasize the increase in practicality, safety, and efficiency that new technologies bring about, perhaps understating the complex questions of values and meanings involved. In order to get an overall picture of the urban experience that contemporary cities give rise to, it is necessary to focus on how technology contributes to it. The everyday experience of increasingly smartening cities consists of technological solutions that function in ways that go well beyond the perceptual capacities of regular urban dwellers. The intertwining of experiential layers affects and constitutes the currently prevailing conditions of the urban lifeworld. The experiential analysis of urban technologies begins by recognizing the fundamental role that various practices and routines have in the constitution of the urban everyday experience.
