Urban informatics and future cities: edited by S. C. M. Geertman, Christopher Pettit, Robert Goodspeed and Aija Staffans, Cham, Springer, 2021, 632 pp., GBP 159.50 (e-book). ISBN 978-3-030-76058-8, ISBN 978-3-030-76059-5.

While we can identify patterns from large pools of data, made possible by big data and digital technologies, using quantitative methods in this way only tells us the outcome (i.e. the most common routes people take) but not the I why i . Urban informatics and future cities: edited by S. C. M. Geertman, Christopher Pettit, Robert Goodspeed and Aija Staffans, Cham, Springer, 2021, 632 pp., GBP 159.50 (e-book). Overall, the chapters explore new planning support systems, analysis techniques, and games, with many of the papers involving the use of big data and, of course, "smartness" evident here and there. [Extracted from the article]