This week’s articles look at various aspects of the interaction of technology and urbanization:

• Beyond the “smart city”: As we enter a third decade of popular reckoning with the idea of networked computation, any notion of a divide between the physical and the virtual is proving less and less tenable. (urbanscale)

• Can you have a private city? The political implications of ‘smart city’ technology: A look at the political questions that face local authorities seeking to implement ‘smart city’ technologies within their cities. (Global Urbanist)

• City-User Interaction: Looking Beyond the Smartphone: What is the future of (augmented) city-user interaction? (John Greasy)

• How Smart Are Smart Cities Getting? As a greater portion of the world’s population gets connected through smart phones and other slick new data-sharing devices, how will people access those services? (Clean Techies)

• 11 traits of a smart city: Some thoughts on what makes a city truly smart (Bluegrass reVISIONS)