Urban Governance
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| ISSN | 2664-3286 / 2667-3800 |
| Scopus | 21101177606 |
| OpenAlex | S4210204874 |
| MAG | 4210204874 |
| Website | https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/urban-governance |
| Total publications | 174 |
| Coverage period | 2021 - 2026 |
| Country | HK |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
| Indexing | DOAJ indexed • Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 124 |
| Impact factor | 1.422 |
| SJR | 0.873 (Q1) |
| SNIP | 1.268 |
| CiteScore | 6.7 |
| h-index | 4 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 0.2 |
| Female authorship share | 35.6% |
This journal focuses on urban governance, which is a key area within urban studies and urban anthropology. It frequently publishes work on the social, political, and cultural dynamics of cities, making it closely cognate to social anthropology
Development · Geography, Planning and Development · Public Administration · Sociology and Political Science · Urban Studies · Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law · Child Nutrition and Water Access · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Navigating rising tides
The Netherlands is grappling with a dual crisis of housing shortages and rising water levels, necessitating innovative governance strategies for sustainable urban development. This research investigates how public and private actors navigate these intertwined challenges, with particular attention to the motivations driving residential development in water-sensitive areas. It examines the extent to which robust governance strategies are embedded i…
Designing a Governance Framework for Low Carbon Transport in Smart Cities
The transport sector remains a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions of the Global South. This study develops a multilevel governance framework for low-carbon mobility in smart cities, using São Paulo, Brazil as a case study. Drawing on documentary analysis and 22 semi-structured interviews across public, private, and civil society sectors, the research examines how governance structures …
The digital city and the struggle for urban public spaces
As digital technologies are increasingly integrated into urban infrastructures, the concept of public space is being transformed. The present paper addresses the relationship between the digital city and urban commons and how digitalization reinforces and subverts the public space paradigm in the post-neoliberal city. While digital technologies promise greater efficiency, connectivity, and civic participation, they also exacerbate social inequali…
Exploring a complex adaptive system in urban systems
This systematic literature review aims to identify the development of trends in scientific publications about complex adaptive systems in urban systems. The study employs bibliometric analysis methods using data sources from literature studies from 1995 to 2024. The primary data were obtained from the Scopus and Dimensions databases and supplemented with data from Google Scholar. The study findings show multidisciplinary involvement from social s…
Sustainable Mobility as a Service Ecosystem
With this study, we advance the theoretical understanding of sustainable mobility by framing it as a service ecosystem shaped by governance and multi-actor coordination. Drawing on a systematic literature review of studies indexed in Scopus and Web of Science from 2015 onward, the analysis reveals fragmentation across technological, behavioral, institutional, and governance-oriented layers, with limited integration across these dimensions, reflec…
Making the case for climate action in cities
Recent efforts to mainstream climate action in urban governance have focused on a co-benefits approach. Cities advocate low carbon place-based investments on the basis that they can deliver wider social and economic benefits, such as access to green spaces, cheaper energy, job creation, and cleaner air or water. In parallel, recently devised climate action planning tools share these features: integrating climate-related actions (master planning);…
Nature-based Solutions thinking for urban water management in the Global South
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are emerging as an increasingly preferred multi-sectoral approach among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across different scales. The topicality of this study, which focuses on NbS thinking for Urban Water Management (UWM), is two-fold. First, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on NbS research and practice in water management in the Global South. Second, there is an unprecedented increase in UWM chall…
Urban transformation towards a smart city
The concept of smart cities has evolved beyond technological innovations to include governance, community involvement, and sustainability. While smart cities are recognized for addressing urban challenges like traffic congestion, public service inefficiencies, and environmental issues, the role of supporting ecosystems—comprising governance, technological infrastructure, and community engagement—remains underexplored. Tangerang City, near Jakarta…
A historiograph of slum governance
This study produces a historiograph of slum governance scholarship to trace its intellectual evolution and map its theoretical structure. By applying a bibliometric analysis to 948 documents from Scopus and a qualitative reading of the 47 most structurally central studies, we identify eleven thematic clusters revealing the field's core concerns, including grassroots governance, the politics of informality, and community agency. More significantly…
AI and the Transformation of Accountability and Discretion in Urban Governance
This paper offers a conceptual analysis of the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in urban governance, focusing on how AI can reshape the relationship between bureaucratic discretion and accountability. Drawing on public administration theory and algorithmic governance research, the study argues that AI does not simply restrict or enhance discretion but redistributes it across institutional levels, professional roles, and citizen…
Behavioral dynamic evaluation of infrastructure development in highly urbanized cities
This study utilizes cumulative prospect theory to evaluate city infrastructure development. • It views the difference between current and previous indicator performance as gains or losses. • A case study of 33 highly urbanized Philippine cities demonstrates the proposed approach. • Findings revealed that the proposed approach penalizes those with a plateaued or declining growth. • It captures temporal and perceptual development shifts, which bett…
Community-led approaches for post-pandemic sanitation resilience in informal urban settlements
This study examines the dynamics of community-led sanitation initiatives and their influence on post-pandemic resilience within informal urban settlements, specifically focusing on Cilincing, Jakarta. Utilizing structural equation modeling (SEM), the research tested six hypotheses to elucidate significant relationships: H1 confirmed that positive attitudes have a substantial impact on social norms; H2 underscored the role of institutional agency …
Organizational transformation for a circular economy in local governments
As the global urbanisation trend continue, and with more than half of the global population living in urban areas, cities are increasingly responsible for resource consumption, environmental impacts, and greenhouse gas emissions. Circular economy strategies have promoted as a promising mitigation strategy to such problems. However, current research indicates that circular economy is widely addressed conceptually and seldom explores the implementa…
Enhancing urban governance through citizen participation
In Oran, public spaces are not always approached holistically and they are often considered in a fragmented way within urban planning practices. This study explores how a participatory approach, involving citizens in design and management processes, could improve public space development. A questionnaire survey of 201 Oran residents reveals that, although citizen involvement remains limited, it has significant potential for addressing urban chall…
From pretextual planning to prezoning
Discretionary planning systems have long structured urban development in North American cities by prioritizing negotiated outcomes over predictable, rule-based governance. Such systems often facilitate pretextual planning , in which zoning regulations function as instruments of negotiation rather than regulation, enabling municipalities to extract public benefits through exemptions from floor space ratios, parking minimums, or height limits. This…
How digitally-mediated interactions influence the psychological foundations of civic engagement
Citizen participation has emerged as critical to urban environmental governance, yet the micro-level mechanisms linking institutional trust to civic engagement remain underspecified. This study reconceptualizes institutional trust as a heuristic cognitive mechanism that shapes environmental behavior under uncertainty and bounded rationality. We ask: How does institutional trust activate citizens' participation in urban water governance? Drawing o…
E-permitting in Ghana
Ghana grapples with problems of adherence to building codes and digital literacy. • E-permitting reduces delays in construction approvals. • Permit regulatory loopholes impede safe and sustainable urban growth. • Key drivers for e-permitting include financing models and digital infrastructures. • BIM-GIS integration is the best e-permitting system for Sub-Saharan countries. Over the past decade, population growth coupled with the consequential ra…
Sustainable cities and energy transition
Energy consumption is considered vital for driving economic activities. However, the reliance on fossil fuels has created environmental degradation and energy security issues. The panacea of all these problems is to shift from dirty to clean energy sources. The role of the financial sector is vital because a stable and modernized financial industry can provide loans and funds for renewable energy consumption. Therefore, this study's main goal is …
Evaluation of Brazilian cities from the perspective of smart cities
Urban living labs as catalysts for innovation
Innovation plays a key role in responding to increasingly interconnected and complex urban challenges, which require integrative approaches supported by technology, citizen participation, and collaborative governance. This study explores the transformative role of Urban Living Labs in shaping urban innovation ecosystems through the Quintuple Helix Model. By examining the interaction between academia, industry, government, civil society, and the n…
State-of-the-art review of resilient smart cities
Exploring big data applications in sustainable urban infrastructure
As urbanization accelerates globally, cities face unprecedented challenges related to infrastructure management, resource efficiency, and sustainability. To address these issues, many cities are increasingly integrating big data into their infrastructure systems, particularly within the context of smart cities. This study provides a comprehensive review of how big data is utilized to promote sustainable urban infrastructure, focusing on five key …
Cybersecurity in local governments
The future of EPCs
Why do smart city projects fail to create impact? Understanding decision-making in smart city policy implementation
Urban resilience for building a sustainable and safe environment
Urban areas are the foundation of modern economies worldwide and act as hubs for population and investments. The increasing importance of urban areas coincides with a rise of complex social and natural threats. Urban resilience has been an emerging concept for the last decade. The term has been widely accepted and used but that still faces a lack of consensus on its meaning and implications to policy and governance. This perspective article offer…
The role of organizational capacity to foster digital transformation in local governments
Organizational capacity is required to explain what it takes for local governments to succeed in their digital transformation. However, the current literature largely ignores how local governments are adapting their organizational dynamics in order to change. This paper aims to contribute to better understanding how local governments enhance their organizational capacity to achieve digital transformation. We conduct a comparative case study that …
Rethinking local and regional governance in China
A key challenge confronting any sizeable country is how to build a unified nation while avoiding the trap of relying on a centralized government and an ossified bureaucracy that fail to address multi-faceted governance issues at varying levels and scales. Using Alexis de Tocqueville's concept of “centralized government, decentralized administration” as the starting point, this paper examines continuing institutional challenges in contemporary Chi…
Disrupting from the ground up
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of the urban food system by interrupting global food chains and restricting human mobility. This has impacted food security at the local level, with urban communities not been able to access food as before. In response, newly formed governance mechanisms and policies have emerged on the ground, disrupting existing governance frameworks. This paper examines such developments in London to unde…
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of land surface temperature and satellite-derived indices for new town development and suburbanization planning
Pervasive development across the country has resulted in unprecedented urbanization with a phenomenal change to the urban landscape. This rapid expansion of cities has generated characteristic local urban climates with an increased land surface temperature (LST) and the intensities of urban heat islands (UHI). The study on LST and UHI can be performed to investigate the spatiotemporal variation in dynamics of land surface temperature and satellit…
Collaborative governance in emergencies
Country governments and the WHO advocated that the "whole-of-government" and the "whole-of-society" approaches are necessary to fight against the pandemic. However, it is unclear what it means in practice and its implications in the of context of food security and in emergencies. This article examines the “whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach” (WOG-WOS), how the government and non-government stakeholders have quickly engaged in colla…
Towards equitable & resilient post-pandemic urban food systems
What advances information sharing for sustainability performance management? Empirical evidence from U.S. local governments
The broad nature of sustainability goals encompassing environmental, social, and economic well-being necessitates multiple departments' collaboration on integrating key informational resources. However, research finds that, in most cases, information sharing is still an exception rather than a norm and points to the importance of institutional force in shaping and advancing the practice. This research investigates the extent to which city departm…
Urban living labs as catalysts for innovation
Innovation plays a key role in responding to increasingly interconnected and complex urban challenges, which require integrative approaches supported by technology, citizen participation, and collaborative governance. This study explores the transformative role of Urban Living Labs in shaping urban innovation ecosystems through the Quintuple Helix Model. By examining the interaction between academia, industry, government, civil society, and the n…
Cities and sustainability
Food Crisis as a Tool for Social Change
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted food availability and affordability and changed the daily food practices of New Yorkers in three critical ways: (1) closing restaurants and public institutions, including schools, reduced food access and changed shopping patterns, food expenditures, and diets; (2) economic disruption exacerbated food insecurity and increased the need for food assistance; and (3) altered food practices affected diets. Vulnerable pop…
Risk communication in an informal settlement during Covid-19
This article interrogates the nuances of risk communication in a poor neighbourhood of South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that risk communication had multifaceted implications for managing and governing the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has coincided with the information age, where multiple communication channels affect the success of risk communication through miscommunication, false news, or distortion. Using a qualitative s…
Governance rules for managing smart city information
Collecting, processing, and distributing information has always been a core function of government. This core function has evolved from the earliest ancient governments using clay tablets to today's smart cities relying on integrated data exchanges (IDE). A smart city “uses information and information technology to make better decisions to improve the quality of life” (Nam & Pardo, 2011). The IDE framework builds upon the data platform literature…
Resilience, Fragility, and Robustness
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on cities around the world. In this paper, we analyse city fragility and resilience through the lens of the social compact framework. This framework enables an understanding of the interplay of agreements between citizens and city, state and national governments that exist within city systems. We examine three different case studies during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand instances of …
Characterisation and typology of urban wetlands in Ghana
Urban wetlands continue to provide essential ecosystem services to the urban populace and are largely seen as urban commons that need to be managed properly for continuous wise use of wetlands. Yet fewer studies have highlighted the characteristics as basis for the development of a typology to make it easy for differentiated and appropriate spatial, management and policy planning interventions. The study draws on urban commons and resource access…
Health communication and trust in institutions during the Covid-19 lockdown in China's urban communities
Communicating health knowledge effectively at the community level is essential for shaping resilient urban governance in a pandemic period. This paper examines how three styles of community health communication, namely traditional authoritative communication (TAC), authoritative communication via social media (ACSM), and interactive communication via social media (ICSM), were associated with public trust in different types of “institutions”, name…
Why do smart city projects fail to create impact? Understanding decision-making in smart city policy implementation
Urban resilience
This manuscript investigates the multifaceted concept of urban resilience amidst escalating urbanization and environmental challenges. The study identifies and examines key problems across environmental, infrastructural, economic, human, social, and institutional dimensions of urban resilience through a systematic review of literature and consultations with experts in the field. Emphasizing the significance of interdisciplinary collaboration and …
Green streetism precarity in Kumasi, Ghana
There is much interest in urban green space planning and management; yet little attention has been paid to the notions of green streetism in African cities. This paper responds to this lacuna by using a case study of Kumasi (Ghana) to: (i) examine the character of urban green space; (ii) analyze agency knowledge on green streetism; and (iii) assess agency strategies for changing the phase of green streetism. Using secondary document analysis and …
A digital turn for urban management? Residents' perception and utilisation of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana
Rapid urbanisation and its associated challenges in Global South countries have necessitated the use of digital technologies in urban management. Key to their successful utilisation for urban management is residents' perceptions and utilisation of these technologies. Yet, little attention has been given to this area of research. Using data gathered from a cross-sectional survey in three suburban communities, the study examined residents' percepti…
Trust in government and electronic levy payment decisions in Ghana
Governments in many developing countries have consistently experienced budgetary shortfalls due to several problems including tax evasion and avoidance. An important social capital identified in the literature that drives an individual's behaviour towards responding positively to taxation is trust. Leveraging on the theory of trust, we disaggregate trust in government into trust in the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, and investigate the ext…
Rethinking sustainable urban management
The urbanization process in countries in the global south has enormous implications for the social and the spatial structure of cities. Despite the complexities associated with urbanization and the socio-spatial structure of urban centers, there is limited research in this area of study. This study seeks to assess the effects of urbanization on the socio-spatial structure of the Tamale Metropolis. The research relied on both secondary and primary…
The moderating role of Covid-19-related support on urban livelihood capitals
In the Global South, the COVID-19 crisis has compelled varied efforts to quickly address the pandemic's impact on urban livelihoods. Families, friends as well as public, private, and civil society organizations have mobilized various resources to avert the pandemic's onslaught on the survival of the urban vulnerable. Indeed, there is a burgeoning ‘pandemic urban scholarship’ that shed insights on COVID-19 risks, local responses, and impacts on ev…
From legislation to obligation
Given the rise in Australia's biodiversity and habitat loss, in this paper we explore how smart urban governance—might move beyond its more anthropocentric focus on citizens, civic institutions, and the urban environment to address multispecies justice. Situated in Brisbane, Australia, our research contributes new knowledge (co)produced with stakeholders who identify four anthropocentric barriers within smart urban governance: (1) property owners…
Food and communities in post-Covid-19 cities
While Covid-19 pandemic has affected countries across the world, the burden has been shared disproportionately by urban poor from the cities in Global South. In much of Global South, while cities have emerged as growth centers, they are mostly driven by informalities, belying the image of cities, visualized in the mainstream development economics literature as a place of secured formal jobs that free one from the drudgery of rural life. Covid-19 …
Food Crisis as a Tool for Social Change
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted food availability and affordability and changed the daily food practices of New Yorkers in three critical ways: (1) closing restaurants and public institutions, including schools, reduced food access and changed shopping patterns, food expenditures, and diets; (2) economic disruption exacerbated food insecurity and increased the need for food assistance; and (3) altered food practices affected diets. Vulnerable pop…
Pakistani migrant workers’ social practices to deal with food insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This qualitative research investigates the impact of the lockdowns (which started in March 2020) and other factors on Pakistani migrant workers’ food access and consumption practices in Kuala Lumpur. It also explores how they managed food supply. The article drives data from 14 in-depth informal interviews conducted through WhatsApp messenger and face to face. The qualitative interviews were categorized into themes and were analyzed. It used the …
New (sub)urbanism? - How German cities try to create “urban” neighborhoods in their outskirts as a contribution to solving their recent housing crises
The paper explains the current state of greenfield development for housing in major German cities. The respective projects are a result of the ways metro regions are structured both administratively and physically, the resulting governance arena that is dominated by the core cities but characterized by a number of constraints that make large greenfield developments increasingly difficult, and the complex socioeconomic and cultural realities in re…
Institutional roles in enhancing assets adaptation of urban poor
Population growth has increased the number of informal settlements and unplanned structures within the urban areas. Most often, the urban poor suffer since they are found within urban slums with poor facilities. Even though government institutions are expected to develop assets within the urban areas, other institutions such as the Civil Society Organizations, Faith-Based Organizations, and traditional authorities can play certain roles to comple…
Disrupting from the ground up
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of the urban food system by interrupting global food chains and restricting human mobility. This has impacted food security at the local level, with urban communities not been able to access food as before. In response, newly formed governance mechanisms and policies have emerged on the ground, disrupting existing governance frameworks. This paper examines such developments in London to unde…
Integrating solar energy considerations into urban planning for low carbon cities
Achieving sustainable environmental governance in Nigeria
Even though governance is widely recognized as one of the most imperative factors in achieving effective environmental management, sustainable environmental management remains an abstraction in Nigeria. Against this background, this conceptual review and synthesis article seeks to provide policy recommendations through a broader review of existing literature on Nigeria's existing institutional, legal, and policy frameworks of environmental govern…
Coping with black swan and grey rhino
Informal social accountability mechanisms for water sanitation and hygiene (Wash) in childcare centres in Nairobi City County's informal settlements
Social accountability for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services is a critical component to realising child rights to WASH services by the urban poor, more so in childcare centres. Despite the existence of discrete social accountability mechanisms (SAMs) in informal settlements, informal SAMs rarely form part of strategic approaches to addressing social accountability challenges in access to WASH services in childcare centres. The main obj…
Domestic water accessibility during Covid-19
Reducing the spread of COVID-19 partly depends on easy access to water to ensure adherence to good hygienic practices. However, most communities in Ghana face a series of challenges in accessing improved water sources. This study seeks to examine water access and its associated challenges, and the various strategies adopted by households to cope with these challenges in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of Ghana during the early days of the COVID-19 pa…
Climate smart cities? Technologies of climate governance in Brazil
Cities are fundamental agents and spaces in global climate governance, whether through their participation in transnational climate networks, urban sustainability innovation, experimentation, or the use of low-carbon digital technologies in urban governance, a phenomenon known as climate-smart city. In Brazil, few studies have addressed this issue. Thus, here I analyze the political agenda and economic dynamics involved in the transformation of B…
The ‘net zero’ carbon needs ‘billions of zeros’ capital. But what about cheaper solutions
Time flies, as CO2 and global temperatures continue to rise rapidly. We can no longer rely on expensive and unachievable or long-delayed new technologies, requiring investment and development to reduce carbon emissions in future decades. Current geopolitical uncertainties are looming while climate change and food insecurity are increasing, and the world's economy is struggling following the two most recent major crises of COVID and war in Europe.…
Principles and practice
By ratifying the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), the Australian Government has accepted the need to mainstream disaster risk reduction (DRR) principles into policy and procedures. This research explores the extent to which this rhetoric has been actioned, using local-government policy as an indicator. The rationale for this approach is that evidence of DRR integration should be observable in recovery procedures related to th…
The role of organizational capacity to foster digital transformation in local governments
Organizational capacity is required to explain what it takes for local governments to succeed in their digital transformation. However, the current literature largely ignores how local governments are adapting their organizational dynamics in order to change. This paper aims to contribute to better understanding how local governments enhance their organizational capacity to achieve digital transformation. We conduct a comparative case study that …
Risk communication in an informal settlement during Covid-19
This article interrogates the nuances of risk communication in a poor neighbourhood of South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that risk communication had multifaceted implications for managing and governing the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has coincided with the information age, where multiple communication channels affect the success of risk communication through miscommunication, false news, or distortion. Using a qualitative s…
Measuring progress of smart cities
The ‘smart city’ represents a core feature of modern urban development. The appearance of numerous smart city indices, which claim to successfully evaluate and compare smart city performances, is the manifestation of the concept's growing popularity. The central objective of this paper is to address the integrity and quality of the existing smart city indices, and identify those ones which are fit for international comparison. We propose a method…
Urban parks under siege
Urban parks across Africa are reported to have significantly declined over the years; a notable cause being their rezoning to other uses. This notwithstanding, there is little empirical data on the factors that result in the rezoning of parks, which consequently lead to their decline. This study addresses this gap using 16 parks across 6 communities within the Kumasi Metropolis from a political ecology perspective. The results showed significant …
Making cities competitive and sustainable
Decisions institutions, policy arenas, and inter-departmental collective action around urban sustainability
The implementation of urban sustainability policy efforts often require collaboration across multiple semi-independent units within a single government organization. The settings where representatives from relevant units interact, provide a potential mechanism for mitigating functional collective action (FCA) challenges, yet little research has examined how different venues shape the collaborative behavior of administrative units within a single …
Food and communities in post-Covid-19 cities
While Covid-19 pandemic has affected countries across the world, the burden has been shared disproportionately by urban poor from the cities in Global South. In much of Global South, while cities have emerged as growth centers, they are mostly driven by informalities, belying the image of cities, visualized in the mainstream development economics literature as a place of secured formal jobs that free one from the drudgery of rural life. Covid-19 …
Policy and practice
Land use planning remains an integral tool for guiding the growth and development of human settlements due to competing interests and claims of individuals over land. Two major approaches are adopted - conventional and participatory - with inconclusive findings on best approach to employ towards guiding the involvement of all stakeholders in promoting orderly development and growth. This study thus contributes to this debate by exploring how conv…
Space use in Central Business District of emerging economies
The Central Business District (CBD)[1] mimics a jungle where businesses and people compete for the best space and use because of its socioeconomic and political roles in a city. This zone attracts many users and uses, making it a focus of regulative planning, which is perceived as a useful behavioural control tool. However, whether a CBD's space user behaviour and use patterns are attributable solely to zoning guidelines and planning standards is…
Conceptualizing new forms of volunteering in urban governance
This article argues that developments in the spheres of the state, the market, and the community have changed their boundaries, affecting volunteering in urban governance. Shifts in the division of tasks between the state and community have led to a new form of manufactured volunteering, while technological developments have made it easier to bridge trust gaps, resulting in platform volunteering. Moreover, business organizations pursuing public g…
From legislation to obligation
Given the rise in Australia's biodiversity and habitat loss, in this paper we explore how smart urban governance—might move beyond its more anthropocentric focus on citizens, civic institutions, and the urban environment to address multispecies justice. Situated in Brisbane, Australia, our research contributes new knowledge (co)produced with stakeholders who identify four anthropocentric barriers within smart urban governance: (1) property owners…
What is the impact of smart city development? Empirical evidence from a Smart City Impact Index
Smart cities aim to provide benefits such as economic prosperity, environmental sustainability, and high quality of life to their citizens. However, we do not have a comprehensive understanding of how and to what extent these benefits are realized. This paper aims to find empirical evidence of both positive and negative results of smart city development. Smart City Impact Index is developed with indicators in four pillars of sustainability (econo…