The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism

Since the advent of second digital revolution, exponential advancement technology is shaping a world with new social, economic, political, technological, and legal circumstances. The consequential disruptions force governments societies to seek ways for their cities become more humane, ethical, inclusive, intelligent, sustainable. In recent years, concept City-as-a-Platform was coined hope providing an innovative approach addressing aforementioned disruptions. Today, this rapidly gaining popularity, as platform thinking applications available city context—so-called urbanism. These platforms used identifying various urbanization problems assistance open data, participatory innovation opportunity, collective knowledge. With these developments in mind, study aims tackle question “How can urbanism support local governance efforts development smarter cities?” Through integrative review journal articles published during last decade, evolution analyzed. findings revealed prospects constraints realization transformative disruptive impacts on government society through urbanism, along disclosing opportunities challenges urban knowledge