دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی شهرهای هوشمند و سیستم های اطلاعات شهری - الزویر 2018

ABSTRACT

The proliferation of smart city policies worldwide in recent years has seen digital infrastructure, urban data and software design play increasingly central roles in the contemporary governance of the city. This article addresses the role of urban data platforms in supporting the delivery of smart city initiatives by city governments, with a view to establishing a typology for effective strategic investments in urban data interfaces aligned to governance objectives. Drawing on a range of different interfaces and approaches, the article discusses the proliferation of urban data platforms through a set of distinct functions and typologies. The discussion aims to position urban data platforms as key sites for the development of new governance models for smart cities, and forums in which decision-makers, researchers, urbanists and technologists seek to test the potentials and pitfalls of data-driven methodologies in addressing a range of contemporary urban challenges.

Conclusion

This paper has discussed the development of platforms or interfaces for urban data management, often called ‘city dashboards’ or ‘datastores’, as supportive infrastructure in the development of smart city governance models. It has addressed a range of different urban data platforms developed by city governments, introducing a typology of urban data platforms that span data snapshots, datastores and scorecards. This typology aims to clarify how different platforms reveal different functional logics of urban data platforms. The discussion has aimed to show that like an iceberg, perhaps slowly melting, that which is visualised and revealed by urban data platforms may not, in fact, the whole story. Underpinning their interfaces and perceived ‘top down visions’ (e.g. maps) are a range of socio-technical engagements, collaborative forums, and technical and governance challenges, being negotiated daily by a range of actors both within and outside city administrations. It is hoped that by engaging with a broader set of policy challenges and settings to which city dashboards respond, this discussion has helped to clarify their role as important domain for urban policy and practice in a world of data-driven services and smart cities.