Kitchin, Rob and Moore-Cherry, Niamh (2019) Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: the case of Metropolitan Boston. Regional Studies, Regional Science. ISSN 1360-0591

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Abstract

Through an empirical focus on Metropolitan Boston, this paper examines the effects of territorial politics and fragmented metropolitan governance on an urban data ecosystem and endeavours to enact a smart city-region. The fragmented governance of Metro Boston reduces scales of economy and produces interjurisdictional data incompatibilities that limit spatial intelligence, foster back-to-back planning and stifle the benefits of open data. Highlighted is the irony that in order to address fragmented governance, there is a need for greater information-sharing, but that very activity is stymied because of a deeply rooted localist agenda that resists more collaborative, metro-regional governance arrangements.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Rob Kitchin & Niamh Moore-Cherry (2020) Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: the case of Metropolitan Boston, Regional Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1735627
Keywords:	fragmented governance; metropolitan governance; open data; smart cities; Boston; territorial politics;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
Item ID:	14928
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1735627
Depositing User:	Prof. Rob Kitchin
Date Deposited:	18 Oct 2021 14:47
Journal or Publication Title:	Regional Studies, Regional Science
Publisher:	Routledge
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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