This book explores how smart cities enable new and playful ways for citizens to experience, inhabit and socialise within urban environments. It will be a resource for scholars and researchers of information technology.

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.

1. Introduction to smart cities at play: technology and emerging forms of playfulness 2. Factors that determine residents' acceptance of smart city technologies 3. The role of a location-based city exploration game in digital placemaking 4. Seeing new in the familiar: intensifying aesthetic engagement with the city through new location-based technologies 5. Play in the smart city context: exploring interactional, bodily, social and spatial aspects of situated media interfaces 6. Smart data at play: improving accessibility in the urban transport system 7. Serious gaming as a means of facilitating truly smart cities: a narrative review