This book is one of the first efforts to systematically introduce digital urban governance in China. It describes the theoretical system and historical development and evolution of digital urban governance, analyzes the complex relationship between cutting-edge technologies, new types of data, and urban governance, provides rich research cases to guide governance practice, and further discusses the future opportunities and potential challenges of digital urban governance from the perspective of artificial intelligence and open data movement. This book helps to promote the transformation and upgrading of urban governance research paradigms and can also actively serve the major national and local strategies in China, such as new urbanization, digital China, and digital reform.

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Weiwen Zhang is a professor and vice dean of the School of Public Affairs, at Zhejiang University, the director of China Institute of Urbanization, and the director of the ZJU-CMZJ Joint Lab on Data Intelligence and Urban Future. She received her Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University. Her research interests include inter-governmental cooperation issues in urbanization and digital urban governance.

Yongping Zhang is an assistant professor at the School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, and the deputy director of the ZJU-CMZJ Joint Lab on Data Intelligence and Urban Future. He received his Ph.D. degree from University College London. His research interest is mainly in the domain of quantitative urban studies, covering the topics highly related to urban big data analysis, smart cities, digital urban governance, sustainable transport, and GIS.