A Proposal for Principled Decision-Making: Beyond Design Principles
Sanfilippo, Madelyn Rose; Frischmann, Brett M.
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Title
A Proposal for Principled Decision-Making: Beyond Design Principles
Author(s)
Sanfilippo, Madelyn Rose
Frischmann, Brett M.
Date of Publication
2023-02-09
Keyword(s)
Knowledge commons
Smart cities
Abstract
In this chapter, we outline a forward-looking, intelligent approach to thinking through and evaluating supposedly smart systems. First, we clarify that it is not the city that is smart. Rather, smartness is better understood and evaluated in terms of affordances supposedly smart tools provide actual people. Who gains what kinds of intelligence? For what purposes? Subject to what governance? Second, we identify and address key challenges to intelligent governance in smart city projects. Cities must move beyond a transactional mindset, appreciate how smart systems become an integral part of the built environment, and develop appropriate governance. Third, we propose an approach to smart city governance grounded in local, contextual norms and scaffolded by key questions to ask throughout smart city planning, procurement, implementation, and management processes. This approach is importantly not oriented around Elinor Ostrom’s famous-design principles, but rather a shared set of evaluative questions to guide decision-making.
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