ABSTRACT
In the previous chapters, we discussed top-down and bottom-up planning for intelligent cities and strategies for intelligent clusters and districts, custom innovation ecosystems created by companies with the use of smart environments, and solutions for smart infrastructure that city authorities should implement. In this last chapter, we will attempt to define a generic model of intelligent city governance and how it adapts to the horizon of current trends in open innovation, smart systems, and big data. Our focus is the continuous enrichment of the spatial intelligence of cities thanks to the ceaseless contribution of urban communities, smart environments, and innovation processes. The main questions we address regard how to model key instances of governance for the transformation of urban systems into intelligent city entities, and how the governance model is affected by large-scale data provided by smart urban systems and the deepening of distributed knowledge patterns within cities.
