Smart city information base as a promising tool of urban management

Abstract

The issues of scientific definition of the concept of Smart City in the theory of urban planning and management of large cities are considered. The author analyzes the practice of implementing new management mechanisms that are being formed within the framework of the national project Smart City". This state program, aimed to improve the efficiency of urban development and management processes based on digitalization, has several significant scientific and methodological shortcomings that can lead to a significant decrease in its effectiveness and usefulness. A hypothesis is proposed that shifts the semantic load of the concept of Smart City" from the technology of intelligent management of elements and systems of urban economy to the creation of an information management phenomenon, conventionally called the "brain of the city", capable of independently generating optimal management decisions, regardless of random factors related to the qualifications of managers. This hypothesis relates to the use and development of an anthropomorphic approach, the product of which is the very concept of "Smart City", with its numerous interpretations. This approach also implies the further development of methods of system analysis of urban formations. Adaptation and implementation of current methods of designing city models and algorithms for its management are based on studies of the beginning of the XX century, involving the unification of all human, biological and physical sciences in the search for universal organizational principles underlying all types of systems.Within the framework of the proposed hypothesis, based on methodological approaches in the field of development of digital platforms as perspective information and management tools, an attempt is made to formulate the structure and content of the institutional phenomenon, conventionally called the "Center for Intellectual Support of Urban Management".