Through an empirical focus on Metropolitan Boston, this paper examines the effects of territorial politics and fragmented metropolitan governance on an urban data ecosystem and endeavours to enact a smart city-region. The fragmented governance of Metro Boston reduces scales of economy and produces interjurisdictional data incompatibilities that limit spatial intelligence, foster back-to-back planning and stifle the benefits of open data. Highlighted is the irony that in order to address fragmented governance, there is a need for greater information-sharing, but that very activity is stymied because of a deeply rooted localist agenda that resists more collaborative, metro-regional governance arrangements.
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Kitchin, R., & Moore-Cherry, N. (2021). Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: the case of Metropolitan Boston. Regional Studies, 55(12), 1913–1923. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1735627
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