Supplementary material for "Cityverse Readiness: A Critical-Infrastructure Reading of the Smart City Promise"

Supplementary material accompanying the paper "Cityverse Readiness: A Critical-Infrastructure Reading of the Smart City Promise", presented at Academic Mindtrek 2026 in the Future of Smart Cities track.

The paper reports a reflexive thematic analysis of nine semi-structured interviews with partners of the Metadata to Metaverse (MD2MV) consortium, a multi-scale digital-twin research project spanning the individual, building, and city scales of the built environment. This deposit contains the supporting analytical documentation:

S1 Overview: deposit contents, methodology summary, anonymisation policy, and ethics and consent statement.
S2 Participant Summary: the nine interview participants by partner identifier, with sector, primary scale, interview role, interview month, transcript length, partner type, and topical coverage.
S3 Interview Guide: the six-topic semi-structured guide used across all nine interviews.
S4 Thematic Codebook: pooled inductive codes across the corpus, the seven inductive themes with cross-partner support, and a selective code-to-evidence index with representative quotes.
S5 Continuum Positioning: per-partner placement on the 3D model, Digital Model, Digital Shadow, Digital Twin, cityverse trajectory, with cited evidence and a cross-partner reading.