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City Knowledge
The main reference document still
remains, Dr. Carrera’s MIT dissertation entitled City Knowledge: An
Emergent Information Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Maintenance,
Management and Planning.
Although there is no company, other than City Knowledge LLC, that fully
adopts all of the City Knowledge principles, there are still a lot of
consulting firms that provide bits and pieces of the municipal information
system mosaic. Below is a partial list
of such companies, as we have encountered them in a variety of municipal
settings, in the course of our City Lab projects.
There are “practitioners of city knowledge” out there:
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Some companies provide (mostly vertical) solutions for
specific areas of municipal management:
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Tensing
There are several companies that provide municipal
solutions that attempt to be comprehensive:
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GEOtms
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Several other companies provide
specific solutions for municipal departments, such as:
Permitting:
Work Orders:
Police/Crime: GTG (Geographic Technologies Group)
Utilities: McKim&Creed and GTG
Many companies specialize in
mapping services and related GIS consulting, such as:
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Other companies focus on field data collection and asset
inventories:
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