Digitally just cities
In his seminal book The Myth of the Machine Lewis Mumford wrote that emerging new megatechnics would create a uniform, all-enveloping, super-planetary structure, designed…
Governance and economy
Doughnut cities
There is no place in the world where all residents share the same level of prosperity, or where this prosperity has been achieved in…
Prioritizing the Privacy Concerns of Smart Cities
A new kind of city is emerging — one where a network of sensors and devices collect huge amounts of data that planners use…
Well-governed cities
Democracy must encompass more than an incidental vote for a certain party. Below, the additional possibilities that cities have for involving citizens in policy…
Safe cities
The reduction of crime is not primarily to be expected from effective police work, despite the best technological support, but from a society with…
Future Cities: Smart by default. Humane by choice
Smart City Hub brings you an exciting new series of essays: “Future Cities: Smart by default. Humane by choice”. Every few weeks, a new…
Smart city? Smart mayor!
I have been writing about smart cities for some years. I wondered which advice I would give to the mayor if she asked me…
Unique eBook: Smart City Tales
Herman van den Bosch has been a writer at the Smart City Hub platform for quite some time now and has published many of…
Smart cities, smarter management
Smart management could help to run the smart city projects efficiently and effectively by viewing the smart city initiative as a unique complex project…
Smart city governance
At June 21th, I attended the conference Next generation cities: Who owns the city. This conference was part of the five-day WeMakeThe.City festival in…