#urbangovernance — Public Fediverse posts

Are we answering the wrong question when it comes to smart cities? We spend enormous effort making cities easier to measure, and far less effort making them accountable to the people living in them.
Reflecting on my PhD research comparing two systems from two different cities, the evidence is clear: technology isn't the bottleneck. Citizen Inclusion is.

Read the breakdown and access the full thesis:
https://open.substack.com/pub/urbanlifeworks/p/what-bangkok-and-singapore-taught?r=18i7sn&utm_medium=ios
#SmartCities #GovTech #UrbanGovernance #CivicTech #PublicPolicy

OnlineFirst - "An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals" by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder:

#urbangovernance #problematization #urbananimals #historicalgeography #urbangeography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241281227

The the main project I lead:
#Digital urban development - How large digital corporations [like #Amazon #Google #Microsoft] shape the field of urban governance (DIGI-GOV)"

Summary here: https://tinyurl.com/y58cc8b7
Funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund

Cities include: #Luxembourg #Amsterdam #Seattle #WashingtonDC #Toronto #Kyiv

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#urbanplanning #urbangovernance #urbanpolitics #urbangeography