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Abstract Digital Twin Cities (DTCs) are promoted as the next frontier of urban governance, promising real-time simulation, predictive modelling, and frictionless management of urban futures. This paper argues that DTCs exemplify a profound simplification of urban prototyping. Rather than expanding experimentation and participation, they transpose the messy, material, and political work of city-making into closed systems of computation and control.
The global proliferation of urban digital twin models compels a research agenda that investigates the intertwined social, political, and technical dimensions of their development, from design to use in planning and governance.
The rising tide of urban data is transforming the field of urban planning. Studies utilizing cell phone data, social network service data, sensors, and satellite imageries have opened up new avenues of inquiry to quantify the built environment and model formerly hidden human mobility dimensions. Despite the myriad ways to synthesize this newly available information, the act of shaping cities remains a political gesture often legitimized through the use of data.
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