Description
Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew cities and citizenship in America
The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance within the digital age so that it will assist leaders link vital 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 way forward for governance. The book will assist 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 at the city level. The book is co-authored by Professor Stephen Goldsmith, director of Data-Smart City Solutions at Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor Susan Crawford, co-director of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Web and Society. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg penned the book’s foreword.
Based at the authors’ experiences and extensive research, The Responsive City explores topics including:
- Building consider within the public sector and fostering a sustained, collective voice among communities;
- Using data-smart governance to preempt and predict problems even as bettering quality of life;
- Creating efficiencies and saving taxpayer money with digital tools; and
- Spearheading these new approaches to government with innovative leadership.