The explosive advancements of sensing technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT) have given rise to various smart technologies that brought profound changes in various aspects of urban life. Such changes may suggest a paradigm shift in the ways of experiencing and researching urbanism. However, we still know very little about what to expect and how to cope with these changes based on scientific investigations from a behavioral and social perspective. To fill this void, this special issue “Smart technologies and urban life: A behavioral and social perspective” presents a collection of ten papers covering four themes, namely smart technologies-generated big data and urban research, smart technologies and travel behavior, smart technologies and energy consumption, and smart technologies and urban life. Specific topics include the application of open source data and deep learning techniques, the development of smart street lighting system, the usage and social implications of smartphone applications, the ownership and application of emerging mobility services, household decisions on investments in renewable energy equipment, travel behavior, smartness and sustainability etc. Building upon findings from these studies, we speculate on the prospects and future applications of smart technologies and their implications for social and environmental sustainability.

传感技术，人工智能（AI）和物联网（IoT）的爆炸性发展催生了各种智能技术，这些智能技术给城市生活的各个方面带来了深刻的变化。这样的变化可能表明体验和研究城市主义的方式发生了范式转变。但是，我们从行为和社会角度对基于科学调查的预期结果以及如何应对这些变化知之甚少。为了填补这一空白，本期专刊“智能技术与城市生活：行为和社会视角”提出了十篇论文的集合，涵盖了四个主题，即智能技术生成的大数据和城市研究，智能技术和旅行行为，智能技术能源消耗，智能技术和城市生活。