ABSTRACT
This chapter describes 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. It 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. The chapter explains the standard model of intelligent city structure as composed of three fundamental layers, those of 'city', 'innovation ecosystem', and 'digital space'. These layers composing intelligent cities comprise elements which appear in multiple forms. The chapter also explains the model of intelligent city functioning as composed of three innovation circuits generating digital spaces, improvements in decision-making and better city working. Cities and urban subsystems offer communities of practice, skills, resources, infrastructure for human action, and capacities for governance and management.
