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  • 5 - Smart Tech Deployment and Governance in Philadelphia

  • from Part II - Polycentricity and Urban Data
  • Edited by Brett M. Frischmann, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book:
    Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons
    Published online:
    18 February 2023
    Print publication:
    09 February 2023, pp 112-156
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    This case study focuses on smart tech deployment and governance in Philadelphia. In 2019, the City of Philadelphia launched a new smart city initiative, SmartCityPHL. SmartCityPHL includes a roadmap of strategies, processes, and plans for deployment. In many ways, the new initiative is remarkable. It is ambitious yet pragmatic; it outlines a set of guiding principles along with deliberative and participatory processes; it is broadly inclusive of people and values – as reflected in its simple definition of a smart city: “a city that uses integrated information and communication technology to support the economic, social, and environmental goals of its community.” On its face, and perhaps in comparison with other smart city initiatives, SmartCityPHL provides an exciting roadmap. But the 2019 initiative was not the first smart city project in Philadelphia. There is, in fact, a long history of Philadelphians turning to supposedly smart technology to solve community problems.