Agentic Urban Management and Smart Knowledge Management: A framework to Orchesterization of Value in the Public Sphere

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Professor, Tarbiat Modares University.Tehran, Iran.

10.22091/stim.2025.4451

Abstract

The smart city paradigm has advanced urban governance through data integration and predictive analytics. However, recent advances in autonomous AI systems have enabled the emergence of “agentic urban management”—a governance architecture in which autonomous agents continuously optimize urban systems toward codified public value goals. By linking agentic urban management to “smart knowledge management,” this paper argues that agentic governance is structurally dependent on smart knowledge infrastructures. Drawing on cybernetic governance theory, the knowledge-based view of organization, public value theory, and the digital governance literature, this paper provides an integrated framework for linking urban multi-agent systems with smart knowledge architectures. The paper concludes that agentic cities are not simply symbols of technological transformation, but represent a transition to autonomous knowledge-based governance ecosystems.

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Sciences and Techniques of Information Management
Volume 11, Issue 4
December 2025
Pages 210-218

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