Exploring the interplay between urban governance and smart services codesign

The large spreading of e-democracy and e-participatory tools and environments showed, and is still showing, that technologies offer new direction for dealing with the challenge of scaling the deliberative democracy perspective up to the urban governance scale [10] [20]. The recent growth of ULLs and Human Smart City initiatives is disclosing a promising bridge between the micro-scale of decision and the urban governance mechanisms [17] [18] [4]. In coherence with these perspectives, the paper reports on the interplay between urban governance and smart services co-design in urban transformation as it has been observed and analyses in two European projects, namely Periphèria (www.peripheria.eu) and MyNeinghbourhood (www.my-neighbourhood.eu). It also discusses the value of service co-design as a strategic practice to experiment new participatory governance in smart cities.