The talk will raise awareness about new design opportunities for improving urban lives using computing technologies. In 2014, the United Nations reported that more than half the global population of approximately 6.7 billion people were living in cities and this figure continues to grow. The increasing human density in urban areas has resulted in more frequent use of public urban services and products, and more human interactions with urban infrastructure. Steven believes that the city will become a platform upon which the innovative yet functional inventions of a new metropolis will be designed, and designers play an important role in creating not just meaningful but also livable experiences for the everyday citizen. In this presentation, Steven Bai calls to re-envision the city as a service to alleviate the issues of mass global urbanization, reinforcing the important roles of embedded technologies and intelligent infrastructures in designing our lives in cities of the future.