This chapter looks at the potential of the civic technology movement to enhance the
development of smart cities and the smart city movement. Civic technology combines open …

This chapter introduces important concepts such as smart cities, innovation, technologies,
and “smartness” in government. It argues that a concept of smart city should be more than …

Following the celebration of the “creative city”(as described by Richard Florida), the “smart
city” has become the new flavor of the month—and a brand. It makes clever use of …

There is a sharp contrast between the public value discourse that typifies smart city-making
on the one hand and its democratic deficit on the other. In this article we explore this contrast …

The concept of the'smart city'as the confluence of urban planning and technological
innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse. Despite its …

Civic technology is an emerging field that typically leverages open data—and sometimes
open source software—to address challenges that may be invisible to or neglected by …

In the past few decades, city governments have increasingly faced complex sociotechnical
problems and in response have developed strategies that rely on sophisticated information …

Academic attention to smart cities and their governance is growing rapidly, but the
fragmentation in approaches makes for a confusing debate. This article brings some …

In a race to develop 'smart cities', policymakers in metropolitan regions across the world are
rapidly deploying internet of things devices, sensors, and other modern information and …

This introductory chapter identifies key fundamental charactistics of a smart city. First and
foremost, however, a smart city is based on humans and human interaction for a common …