As a new urban development ideology,smart urbanism intends to understand,criticize and reflect on smart city policies and their relevant outcomes.However,it should be noted that although smart urbanism in the past decade has attracted widespread attention in Western academic circles,little effort has been made by Chinese scholars to understand its conceptual meaning,development characteristics,development dilemmas and transformation demands.Therefore,this paper reviewed the work made by Western scholars on smart urbanism.The review identified that 1) the urban is a set of social relationship r...