The article "Governing the Smart City: A Review of the Literature on Smart Urban Governance" by Albert Meijer and Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar provides a comprehensive analysis of the growing academic interest in smart cities and their governance. The authors identify three main perspectives on smart cities: smart technology, smart people, and smart collaboration. They argue that smart city governance is about crafting new forms of human collaboration through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to achieve better outcomes and more open governance processes. The article highlights the need for a comprehensive perspective that acknowledges the political nature of socio-technical governance and the complexity of institutional change. It also suggests that research into smart city governance should build upon previous studies in e-government and sophisticated theories of socio-technical change. The authors conclude by recommending that future research should focus on the socio-techno dynamics of smart cities, the transformation and conservation of urban governance institutions, the evaluation of smart city governance's impact on economic growth and public values, and the analysis of the politics of smart city governance.The article "Governing the Smart City: A Review of the Literature on Smart Urban Governance" by Albert Meijer and Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar provides a comprehensive analysis of the growing academic interest in smart cities and their governance. The authors identify three main perspectives on smart cities: smart technology, smart people, and smart collaboration. They argue that smart city governance is about crafting new forms of human collaboration through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to achieve better outcomes and more open governance processes. The article highlights the need for a comprehensive perspective that acknowledges the political nature of socio-technical governance and the complexity of institutional change. It also suggests that research into smart city governance should build upon previous studies in e-government and sophisticated theories of socio-technical change. The authors conclude by recommending that future research should focus on the socio-techno dynamics of smart cities, the transformation and conservation of urban governance institutions, the evaluation of smart city governance's impact on economic growth and public values, and the analysis of the politics of smart city governance.