Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness, 9781032608556
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Smart cities unlock playful urban experiences: technology reimagines social connection.

Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness

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  • Paperback

    106 pages

  • Release Date

    30 July 2025

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Summary

Smart Cities at Play: Reimagining Urban Spaces Through Technology

This book explores how smart cities enable new and playful ways for citizens to experience, inhabit, and socialize within urban environments.

It examines how the functionality of digital technologies within municipal settings can extend beyond environmental pragmatism and socio-economic concerns, to include playful approaches to urban spaces that co-constitute and reinvigorate the experience of place through l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781032608556
ISBN-10:1032608552
Author:Konstantinos Papangelis, Michael Saker, Catherine Jones
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:CRC Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:106
Release Date:30 July 2025
Weight:210g
Dimensions:280mm x 210mm
About The Author

Konstantinos Papangelis

Prof. Papangelis is an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, specializing in interactive games and media. He directs the Niantic X RIT Geo Games and Media Lab, focusing on locative media, extended/hybrid reality, and the metaverse. He has published extensively in renowned journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Saker is a Senior Lecturer at City, University of London. He is co-author of From Microverse to Metaverse (2022); Intergenerational Locative Play (2021); and Location-Based Social Media, Space, Time and Identity (2017); and co-editor of The Changing Face of VR (2022).

Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor in Digital Human Geographies in the Faculty of Human, Education and Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

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