Global urbanization has made urban governance a crucial aspect of sustainable urban
development. While geo-information technologies have emerged as indispensable tools for …

This paper argues for a specific urban planning perspective on smart governance that we
call “smart urban governance,” which represents a move away from the technocratic way of …

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN's
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem …

Many spatial decision support systems suffer from user adoption issues in practice due to
lack of trust, technical expertise, and resources. Automated machine learning has recently …

Abstract 'Smart'governance in the 'smart'era is not just about adopting technology but more
concerned with obtaining effective governance processes and achieving improved urban …

Today, cities represent the leading form of territorial and socio-economic organization of
modern society. The formation of a smart city based on smart infrastructure as its core …

Digital Participatory Planning outlines developments in the field of digital planning and
designs and trials a range of technologies, from the use of apps and digital gaming through …

We propose a participatory development process to address critiques of Planning Support
Systems (PSS) that focus on their shortcomings of the empowerment of stakeholders and the …

This article focuses on the planning–technology nexus. Recent work explores the potential
of digital technology in overcoming the longstanding limitations of a lack of public …

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged emergency management in cities worldwide. Many
municipalities adopted restrictive, one-size-fits-all spatial regulations such as lockdowns …