Cities need to upgrade their governance, to allow for a greater role for poorer and more marginalized communities, and to enable much more effective coordination across city lines when a metropolitan area is home to many individual cities. Metropolitan governance is therefore crucial, as smart cities require networks that operate at the metropolitan scale.
但技术只是整个故事的一部分。城市需要升级其治理体系，让较贫穷、被边缘化的社区起更大作用，并在由许多个体城市组成的大都市圈中促进更有效的协调。因此，大都市治理至关重要，因为智能城市需要能在大都市规模运转的网络。