Moving from Urban to City technologies: envisioning future trajectories for planning research

Smart city technologies are focused on monitoring the urban fabric, while web-based technologies are oriented to enable communication among people and potentially support innovative social practices in cities. Even though planning research recently turned toward critically approaching the smartness paradigm pushing for people-centred solutions in smart city technologies, the under-exploitation of web-based technologies to collectively address city challenges remained marginally explored. Outlining this gap, the paper proposes five lines of research to inform the design of future city-oriented web-based technologies.