Description
Book SynopsisLeveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew cities and citizenship in America The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities. Featuring vivid case studies highlighting the work of pioneers in New York, Boston, Chicago and more, the book provides a compelling model for the future of governance. The book will help mayors, chief technology officers, city administrators, agency directors, civic groups and nonprofit leaders break out of current paradigms to collectively address civic problems. The Responsive City is the culmination of research originating from the Data-Smart City Solutions initiative, an ongoing project at Harvard Kennedy School working to catalyze adoption of data projects on the city level. The
Table of Contents
Foreword by Michael Bloomberg v
Introduction 1
1 The Return of Retail Governance 17
2 Networked Citizenship 37
3 The Interactive City 55
4 The City as Digital Platform 73
5 The Responsive Employee 95
6 The Data-Smart City 119
7 Rethinking Government 139
8 Toward Responsive Cities 157
Notes 179
Acknowledgments 183
About the Authors 185
Index 187
