The Governance of Smart Cities

Synonyms

City vision; Liveable cities; Smart cities; Smart(er) cities; Urban Futures;

Definition

How are smart cities governed? This chapter describes the design process for an open and transparent method to govern smart cities. This four-step methodology describes the essential steps into democratic decision-making across the city communities. These steps are Data Assessment, Dissemination, Evaluation, and Smart Design. In each step, a smart tool explores the potential outcomes to support discussion between the participants.

Debating whether a smart solution is appropriate for people is a public issue. Often, solutions that might be considered smart do not yield the desirable results, which should be to the benefit of enhancing liveability in cities (Cavada et al. 2016, 2017). This is a design process of four steps: (i) existing data assessment, (ii) dissemination, (iii) evaluation, and (iv) smart solution design. This process aims to create a design approach in governance for urban...