The thesis deals with the concept of the smart city and its premeditation in cinematography, architecture, and urban sociology. The first part of the work, using science fiction cinematography, explains the importance of cities imbued with technology in film narrative and how it serves as an illustration of the distant future. The second part of the work dealing with architecture presents the future and cities imagined by urban planners such as Le Corbusier, Howard Ebenezer, and Patrick Geddes, as also the Archigram collective which supported its ideals and concepts with the philosophy of Situationist International. The last part of the paper deals with the term ''smart city'' that gained its popularity after 2000 by describing cities imbued with smart technology that many today possess in a form of smartphones. In addition to these three areas describing the premeditation of smart cities, a recurring theme that runs through the work is the idea of utopia and its consequences for society and urbanism if it is based on an algorithm/formula. Dystopian movies and modern urban plans serve in this paper as examples of the consequences in the search for utopia, while urban sociology points to the possible shortcomings of high-tech utopias in the context of smart cities. Furthermore, examples from cinematography, architecture, and urban sociology show that technology can't be the only solution to urban problems. Finally, the paper concludes with the premise that smart cities can have great potential and a bright future if its ''intelligence'' lies in smart citizenship that is allowed to participate in creating a city tailored to their needs.