Dossier's contents

Cities can adopt practices that will engage residents in communities of practice, building on making, doing, and sharing together as a base of identity that can...

Cities and citizens, not companies, ought to own the data produced in cities and should be able to use said data to improve public services and put their policies...

The infrastructure of the city offers major new opportunities for profit and power which makes them highly desirable for private platforms like Google, Uber and Baidu...

The platform economy generates considerable challenges and opportunities. It’s necessary to to distinguish truly collaborative platforms, which must be promoted and...

Urban environments are characterised by the opportunities they offer to think of a political culture where shared knowledge assets can be managed jointly by different...

In most cities there are hardly any spaces left for public cohabitation: by neglecting parks and common areas, by closing cultural spaces, by cutting budgets for...

The adjective 'smart' is very much in vogue. It represents the idea that cities can be more intelligent and efficient thanks to technology, and the data that they and...

Information and communications technologies are a strategic sector in a city’s economy, not just because of the volume of investment and jobs they generate,...
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