Number of city-dwellers will be doubled by 2050. Rise of different technologies is rapidly changing the way in which cities are managed. City mayors around the world compete to achieve a smart city. While there are many indeterminacies about appropriateness of digital infrastructures, they are now the inseparable part of the city. Use of smart phones let citizens to participate in shaping their cities more than before. Transportation mobile apps, civic data gathering approaches along with playful urban apps are changing the behavior of citizen.

Centralized top down implementation of smart governance systems are popular to predict the possible problems and support better decision making based on citizen engagement. But are these decisions offering a solution to our existing big problems or they will bring more problems with themselves? There are growing concerns about ownership of data gathered about citizens, as well as what really information technologies are changing. The excitement of automation might conceal the true potential of this new technologies.

What future cities offer in terms of livability and joy? What are the potentials of future cities and information technologies embedded in them for improvement of equity, life of poor and middle-class? What is measurable in a city and what is not measurable? These are crucial questions of this research. The emphasis and promises of tech companies on better life condition, rarely addresses the situation of marginalized and how new information technologies can support them. This investigation is looking for possibilities of better measurement and engagement.