%0 Journal Article %A Mora, Luca %A Gerli, Paolo %A Batty, Michael %A Binet Royall, Emily %A Carfi, Natalia %A Coenegrachts, Karl-Filip %A de Jong, Martin %A Facchina, Marcelo %A Janssen, Marijn %A Meijer, Albert %A Pasi, Giulio %A Perrino, Massimo %A Raven, Rob %A Sagar, Abdinassir %A Sancino, Alessandro %A Santi, Paolo %A Sharp, Darren %A Trencher, Gregory %A van Zoonen, Liesbet %A Westerberg, Pontus %A Woods, Orlando %A Zhang, Xiaoling %A Ziemer, Gesa %D 2025 %F discovery:10205763 %I Springer Science and Business Media LLC %J Nature Cities %P 110-113 %T Confronting the smart city governance challenge %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205763/ %V 2 %X Governance inefficiencies threaten the potential of smart city projects to deliver equitable urban transformations. Current strategies often hinder implementation, and risk harmful technological effects on communities. Tackling this challenge demands urgent reforms to better integrate scientific insights into smarter governance practices. %Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.