ABSTRACT
The agricultural, industrial, technological and digital revolutions have each yielded fundamental disruptions in the way in which we live, work, play and learn in cities. The last 20 years of the internet has seen the digital economy valued at more than US$3 trillion and its appeal to the sharing culture of millennials and Generation Z has further borne influence on not just a global, digitally-connected audience, but has also impacted the way in which we conceive the city. The term ‘smart’ has become an often-used appendage to ‘city’ that seeks to reflect the role Information Communication Technology plays in delivering such benefits. It is unsurprising that the smart city is often portrayed in popular culture as a rich cornucopia of talking appliances, mobile applications, driverless cars, or the ‘big brother’ use of big data.
