Urbanicity has long been associated with stress, anxiety, and mental disorders. A new field of neurourbanism addresses these issues, applying neuroscience laboratory methods to tackle global urban problems and promote happier and healthier cities. Exploratory studies have trialed psychophysiological measurement beyond laboratories, capitalizing on the availability of biosensing technologies to capture geo-located physiological markers of emotional responses to urban environments. This article reviews the emerging conceptual and methodological debates for urban stress research. City authorities increasingly favor new data-driven and technology-enabled approaches to governing smart cities, with the aim that governments will be enabled to pursue evidence-based urban well-being policies. Yet there are few signs that our cities are undergoing the transformative, structural changes necessary to promote well-being. To face this urgent challenge and to interrogate the technological promises of our future cities, this article advances the conceptual framework of critical neurogeography and illustrates its application to a comparative international study of urban workers. It is argued that biosensing data can be used to elicit socially and politically relevant narrative data that centers on body–mind–environment relations but exceeds the individualistic and often behaviorist confines that have come to be associated with the quantifying technologies of the emerging field of neurourbanism.

长期以来，城市化与压力，焦虑和精神障碍有关。神经城市主义的新领域解决了这些问题，将神经科学实验室方法应用于解决全球城市问题并促进更幸福，更健康的城市。探索性研究已经在实验室以外尝试了心理生理测量，这是利用生物传感技术的可利用性来捕获对城市环境的情绪反应的地理位置生理标记。本文回顾了有关城市压力研究的新兴概念和方法论争论。城市当局越来越倾向于采用新的数据驱动和技术驱动的方法来管理智慧城市，其目的是使政府能够奉行循证的城市福祉政策。但是，几乎没有迹象表明我们的城市正在经历为促进福祉而进行的变革性，结构性变化。为了面对这一紧迫的挑战并审视我们未来城市的技术前景，本文提出了关键神经地理学的概念框架，并说明了其在比较国际的城市工人研究中的应用。有人认为，生物传感数据可用于得出社会和政治相关的叙事数据，这些叙事数据以身体，思想与环境的关系为中心，但超出了个人主义和行为主义的范围，这些范围已与新兴的神经城市主义量化技术相关联。为了面对这一紧迫的挑战并审视我们未来城市的技术前景，本文提出了关键神经地理学的概念框架，并说明了其在比较国际的城市工人研究中的应用。有人认为，生物传感数据可用于得出社会和政治相关的叙事数据，这些叙事数据以身体，思想与环境的关系为中心，但超出了个人主义和行为主义的范围，这些范围已与新兴的神经城市主义量化技术相关联。为了应对这一紧迫挑战并审视我们未来城市的技术前景，本文提出了关键神经地理学的概念框架，并说明了其在国际比较的城市工人研究中的应用。有人认为，生物传感数据可用于得出社会和政治相关的叙事数据，这些叙事数据以身体，思想与环境的关系为中心，但超出了个人主义和行为主义的范围，这些范围已与新兴的神经城市主义量化技术相关联。