ABSTRACT
Cities are an everlasting source of wish-driven hope. Many cities around the globe are in the process of being restructured as smart cities. Anthony Townsend concerns are not alternatives to the smart city idea, but rather the kind of methods, questions of planning and the objectives to produce smart cities. The term Utopia is inextricably connected with the city. In Utopia from 1516, Thomas More describes the cities of his fictional country as the most significant places for developing a perfect society: “The whole island of Utopia is a union of cities with their surrounding lands.” The discourse on urbanism had to react. It mainly went for defining smart cities, by understanding it as a complex problem, as mentioned in many discussions on urbanism. In the society of Utopia there are hardly any changes and the Renaissance concept is laid out statically.
