Rapid urbanization and digital transformation are reshaping how cities address challenges related to security,governance,and sustainable development.Geospatial information technology(GIT)has become a base infrastructu...Rapid urbanization and digital transformation are reshaping how cities address challenges related to security,governance,and sustainable development.Geospatial information technology(GIT)has become a base infrastructure for smart cities,where the gathering,synthesis,and examination of spatially explicit information are used to deliver data to make decisions in cities.Even after its increasing significance,the current body of research on geospatial innovation is still divided into the spheres of urban security,spatial governance,and smart city development.Such fragmentation restricts the integration of theoretical work,as well as limits the possibility of developing coherent policies and governance institutions.This article includes a systematic and integrative review of innovation in geospatial information technology to analyze the relationship between technological,data-driven,and institutional innovation and urban security practices,spatial governance processes,and smart city initiatives.Based on peer-reviewed sources on urban studies,geography,planning,and information science,the review generalizes the main trends in real-time spatial analytics,artificial intelligence,participatory geospatial platforms,and urban digital twins.The review shows that geospatial systems facilitate anticipatory governance,cross-sector coordination,and evidence-based urban management,and that it provides an integrative conceptual lens on the existing literature on smart cities and urban governance,as it positions geospatial information technology as a socio-technical infrastructure,as opposed to a technical tool.The paper recognizes the voids in critical research and the directions into the future on how to build ethical,inclusive,and context-sensitive geospatial systems that can allow the creation of secure,governable,and sustainable urban futures.展开更多
基金project supported by the Scientific Research Fund of the Zhejiang Provincial Education Department(grant number Y202456064).
文摘Rapid urbanization and digital transformation are reshaping how cities address challenges related to security,governance,and sustainable development.Geospatial information technology(GIT)has become a base infrastructure for smart cities,where the gathering,synthesis,and examination of spatially explicit information are used to deliver data to make decisions in cities.Even after its increasing significance,the current body of research on geospatial innovation is still divided into the spheres of urban security,spatial governance,and smart city development.Such fragmentation restricts the integration of theoretical work,as well as limits the possibility of developing coherent policies and governance institutions.This article includes a systematic and integrative review of innovation in geospatial information technology to analyze the relationship between technological,data-driven,and institutional innovation and urban security practices,spatial governance processes,and smart city initiatives.Based on peer-reviewed sources on urban studies,geography,planning,and information science,the review generalizes the main trends in real-time spatial analytics,artificial intelligence,participatory geospatial platforms,and urban digital twins.The review shows that geospatial systems facilitate anticipatory governance,cross-sector coordination,and evidence-based urban management,and that it provides an integrative conceptual lens on the existing literature on smart cities and urban governance,as it positions geospatial information technology as a socio-technical infrastructure,as opposed to a technical tool.The paper recognizes the voids in critical research and the directions into the future on how to build ethical,inclusive,and context-sensitive geospatial systems that can allow the creation of secure,governable,and sustainable urban futures.
