Are you interested in post-anthropocentric cities after smart ones? 
Our summary today works with the article titled Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cities: Reconceptualising smart cities to evade urban ecocide from 2019 by Tan Yigitcanlar, Marcus Foth, and Md Kamruzzaman, published in the Journal of Urban Technology. 
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to change current smart city approaches to evade a most likely urban ecocide. This article presents the next step in smart city evolution with post-anthropocentric cities.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Smart city have gone through the intelligent city, the smart city and the responsive city phase, and probably it is time for to evolve further for its fourth generation.
The biggest challenge now is to find a way to change our mentality and politics on urban transformation.
Urban evolution and smart cities arrived to cross road where the next decisions need to include more sustainable ideas and more-than-human elements.

You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: This short piece acts as a coda to this journal’s special issue on “Smart Cities and Innovative Technologies.” First, it provides a retrospective view of the origins of the smart city concept. The paper, secondly, presents the most recent perspectives on the new interpretations of the smart city notion. It then provides a commentary on the potential directions for a better reconceptualization of smart cities to evade a most likely urban ecocide. Lastly, the short communication concludes by asking two critical questions: (a) Will urban scholars, planners, designers, and activists be able to convince urban policymakers and the general public of the need for a post-anthropocentric urban turnaround? (b) How do the public, private, and academic sectors along with communities pave the way for post-anthropocentric cities and more-than-human futures?
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You can find the transcript through this link.
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