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The City as an Operating System

The City as an Operating System

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Cities are often described as platforms, products, or marketplaces for innovation. But these metaphors miss how cities actually function. In this episode, TIA Research explores the City as an Operating System — a framework for understanding why UrbanTech adoption is slow, political, and uneven, and why technology alone rarely delivers transformation.

By unpacking the layered reality of infrastructure, operations, governance, and legitimacy, this episode explains why many Smart City initiatives stalled — and what it really takes to make urban technology work at scale.

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