Smart technologies have advanced rapidly throughout our society and across geographic spaces and places. The “smart” developments have presented unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the discipline of geography. This special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers focuses on the theme of smart spaces and places from a wide range of perspectives. The collection of twenty-one articles included in this special issue offers stimulating discussion on emerging theories, conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and observations to address spaces, places, and smartness. The articles roughly belong to four topical categories: (1) spaces, places, and smartness; (2) analytical smartness; (3) critical smartness; and (4) smart sustainability and policy. Insights gained from the discussion will advance our discipline.

智能技术在我们整个社会以及地理空间和地点中迅速发展。“智能”发展为地理学科带来了前所未有的挑战和机遇。本期《美国地理学家协会年鉴》从广泛的角度关注智能空间和场所的主题。本期特刊中包含的21篇文章的集合提供了关于新兴理论，概念框架，方法和观察的刺激性讨论，以解决空间，位置和机敏性。这些文章大致分为四个主题类别：（1）空间，位置和机敏性；（2）分析灵敏性；（3）批判性机敏；（4）明智的可持续性和政策。从讨论中获得的见识将推动我们的学科发展。