Chapter 14: Urban Flows and Big Data

This chapter explores the construction of public-private partnerships on the subject of sharing big data in cities. It considers data as a strategic asset whose exploitation benefits are not sufficiently permeating our cities neither in the form of better local jobs, new scientific knowledge or well-informed urban operations. It analyzes the barriers and inhibitors of such a sharing agreement between key urban players, especially privacy concerns and cooperation dynamics, and goes over the potential advantages that mixing big data sources in the urban context could have.