Bayat, Ali and Kawalek, Peter

Digitization and urban governance: The city as a reflection of its data infrastructure - International Review of Administrative Sciences - 89(1), Mar, 2023: p.21-38

This article introduces the ‘House Model’, an integrated framework consisting of four data governance modes, based on the urban and smart city vision, context, and big data technologies. The model stems from engaged scholarship, synthesizing and extending the academic debates and evidence from existing smart city initiatives. It provides a means for comparing cities in terms of their digitization efforts, helps the planning of more effective urban data infrastructures and guides future empirical research in this area. The article contributes to the literature examining the issue of big data and its governance in local government and smart cities. – Reproduced


Big data, Citizen participation, Digital-ear governance, digitization, smart cities, Urban governance .