Books
Monographs on digital cities, spatial computing, the metaverse, and the future of urban life in virtual and augmented environments.
Routledge / Chapman & Hall/CRC · 2025
Cities in the Metaverse
Spatial Computing, Digital Twins, Avatars, Economics and Digital Habitation on the New Frontier
Andrew Hudson-Smith, Duncan Wilson & Valerio Signorelli
A comprehensive exploration of the intersection between urban environments and digital realms — tracing the evolution from early cyberspace concepts to current spatial computing technologies and examining how virtual cities are shaping our digital future.
25ESA4
Springer / Nature · 2026
Digital Cities of Tomorrow
AI, planning, spatial computing, GeoAI, and the future of the digital city. Draws on the SMART framework (Hudson-Smith, Hügel & Roumpani, 2020) and the Digital Planning Directory to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping urban systems and the role of the human planner.
2027
Digital Urban
Drawing on two decades of research, practice, and making at the intersection of digital technologies and urban environments. From the early days of the blog through to spatial computing, IoT, and AI — a personal and intellectual account of digital urbanism.
The Little Books
Short, accessible guides to IoT and connected environments, published with Imagination Lancaster as part of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence.
The Little Book of Connected Environments and the Internet of Things
Hudson-Smith, A., Wilson, D., Hay, D. & Gray, S.
Imagination Lancaster, 2019
ISBN 978-1-86220-358-7
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The Little Book of Public Space and the Internet of Things
Deschamps-Sonsino, A., Hudson-Smith, A. & Wilson, D.
Imagination Lancaster, 2020
ISBN 978-1-86220-391-4
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Digital Geography: Geographic Visualisation for Urban Environments
Hudson-Smith, A.
CASA Working Paper Series, UCL, 2008
Selected chapters & contributions
Individual chapters published in edited volumes and handbooks.
Designing the urban metaverse
Visual analytics for urban design. In Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods, 2024.
Turing’s Dream
In Cities in the Metaverse, pp. 94–110. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2025.
More than one twin
An ecology of model applications in East London. In Digital Twins for Smart Cities, ICE, 2023.
Urban IoT
Advances, challenges, and opportunities for mass data collection. In Urban Book Series, 2021.
Smart cities, social capital, and citizens at play
A critique and a way forward. In Research Handbook on Digital Transformations, 2016.
The SMART framework
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technologies. In The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities, 2020.