Various smart technologies, including physical and logical applications in all formats, have been developed and deployed in practice, inspired by explosive advancements of sensing technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT). Such technologies may bring about revolutionary changes to various aspects of urban life: e.g., daily trip making, time use and consumption, family life, energy consumption, health, social network, recreation and leisure, residential location, and ways of working and learning. Some people may actively adopt such smart technologies for bettering their lives while other people may adapt to such smart technologies in a passive way. Such changes in people’s lives and the resulting quality of life (QOL) may be drastic: expectedly or unexpectedly, which may have important implications to urban policy, for example, imposing new requirements to urban functions across space and over time.
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