Governing Smart Cities As Knowledge Commons

Smart technologies are increasingly implemented in urban spaces, often without adequate governance; this volume develops a knowledge commons approach to help guide the adoption of smart cities, and analyzes governance successes and failures, based on a number of case studies across urban and public spaces.

List of contents

Introduction Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Michael J. Madison, and Brett M. Frischmann; 1. Smart Cities and Knowledge Commons Michael J. Madison, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and Brett M. Frischmann; 2. The Challenge for Cities of Governing Spatial Data Privacy Feiyang Sun and Jan Whittington; 3. Open Governments, Open Data Anjanette Raymond and Inna Kouper; 4. Community Land Trusts as a Knowledge Commons: Challenges and Opportunities Natalie Chyi and Dan Wu; 5. Smart Tech Deployment and Governance in Philadelphia Brett M. Frischmann and Martha Tonkovitch; 6. The Kind of Solution a Smart City Is Michael J. Madison; 7. Technofuturism in Play Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and Yan Shvartzshanider; 8. Can a Smart City Exist as Commons? Anna Artyushina; 9. From Thurii to Quayside Richard Whitt; 10. A Proposal for Principled Decision-Making: Beyond Design Principles Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and Brett M. Frischmann; Conclusion Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison and Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo.

About the author

Brett M. Frischmann is Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics at Villanova University.Michael J. Madison is a Senior Scholar with the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security, and Faculty Director of the Future Law Project and a John E. Murray Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Summary

Smart technologies are increasingly implemented in urban spaces, often without adequate governance; this volume develops a knowledge commons approach to help guide the adoption of smart cities, and analyzes governance successes and failures, based on a number of case studies across urban and public spaces.

Foreword

Explores best practices in the governance of data and technology in a variety of cities and public spaces.

Product details

• Authors: Brett M. (Villanova University Frischmann
• Assisted by: Brett M. Frischmann (Editor), Frischmann Brett M. (Editor), Michael J. Madison (Editor), Madison Michael J. (Editor), Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781108837170
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83717-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; North America, LAW / International, LAW / Communications, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, Urban & municipal planning, urban economics, North America (USA and Canada), Ethical & social aspects of IT, Urban and municipal planning and policy, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Regional / urban economics, International communications & telecommunications law