  Environmental concerns have driven an interest in sustainable smart cities,
through the monitoring and optimisation of networked infrastructure processes.
At the same time, there are concerns about who these interventions and services
are for, and who benefits. HCI researchers and designers interested in civic
life have started to call for the democratisation of urban space through
resistance and political action to challenge state and corporate claims. This
paper aims to add to the growing body of critical and civic led smart city
literature in HCI by leveraging concepts from the environmental humanities
about more than human worlds, as a way to shift understandings within HCI of
smart cities away from the exceptional and human centered, towards a more
inclusive understanding that incorporates and designs for other others and
other species. We illustrate through a case study that involved codesigning
Internet of Things with urban agricultural communities, possibilities for
creating more environmentally and socially just smart cities.
