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Title	Smart Urban Governance: The Baseline For Governing Future Cities
ID_Doc	51650
Authors	Diaz-Sarachaga J.M.
Year	2025
Published	Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2394 CCIS
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85324-1_19
Abstract	The rapid urbanization process that is straining the capacity of worldwide cities to provide decent services to citizens cannot remain indifferent to the present digital era. New technologies are particularly efficient on information and communication fields which has allowed the development of innovative schemes to analyze, understand, and enhance urban areas. Among these initiatives, smart cities have led most efforts to improve living standards, sustainability, and urban operations. Despite literature has widely screened this subject from different perspectives, the governance aspect is still pending further analysis. Aiming at filling this gap, this chapter deepens into the governance of smart cities in order to outline a baseline to be deemed in nascent technologies such as urban digital twins (UDTs) or metaverse. Existing commonalities between them facilitate this process. The review of contributions on UDTs served to reveal the lack of studies discussing implications of the UDTs in the governing process of cities. An assessment framework is suggested as future line of investigation to evaluate the contribution of UDTs implemented worldwide to the governance processes. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
Author Keywords	Digital Technology; Governance Assessment; Smart City; Smart Governance; Urban Digital Twin; Urban Governance

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