Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to explore evolving understandings of data, information, and knowledge in smart cities including ways of knowing and computational intelligence. A review of the research literature is conducted in the context of smart cities. Issues, controversies, and problems emerging from the literature review are highlighted, contributing to formulation of a conceptual framework for urban life and the ambient with the evolving of data, information, and knowledge in smart cities. Using an exploratory case study approach combined with an explanatory correlational design, variables of interest are identified including information and communication technologies (ICTs), meaningfulness, and the use of visualizations while the nature of their relationships are assessed. Through the lens of emerging forms of data, information, and knowledge, efforts are made to inform understandings of smart, learning, and future cities while pointing to directions for research and practice.