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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 |
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| 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: | 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 |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/14928 |
| 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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