Urban Governance
Presenting new methods/approaches in a workshop with the urban planning office of the City of Zurich. Credit: Geri Schrotter, 2017
How can big data better inform stakeholders and make decision making more accountable and transparent?
UN-Habitat defines external page urban governance as the “software that enables the urban hardware to function”. “Effective urban governance is characterised as democratic and inclusive; long-term and integrated; multi-scale and multilevel; territorial; proficient and conscious of the digital age.”
This work stream of the Big Data-Informed Urban Design and Governance project will study the governance processes of Singapore, Zürich, and Bandung. Through qualitative research methods (questionnaires, interviews), the research will focus on four main aspects:
- Analysing existing platforms that connect city services through data such as public digital data, apps, social media data, and sensors data.
- Assessing the city’s capacity to use big data analytics and integrate it in planning and policy response and the challenges faced by the city.
- Exploring new approaches for the city to collect, integrate, plan and visualize data, including the design and planning tools developed by other projects at FCL.
- Enhancing citizen participation in decision making in order to improve transparency, accountability and giving citizens a voice in planning, while ensuring high level of privacy.
Visual for comparative study. Source: Ludovica Tomarchio (2017)