This book draws upon the findings of recent research projects exploring the creativity of smart cities. It captures the critical insights and institutional means by which to get beyond the all-too-often self-congratulatory tone that cities across the world strike when claiming to be smart. This book was published as a special issue of Urban Technology.

Drawing upon the smart experiences of 'world class' cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced.