Professor Goldsmith's latest book, The Responsive City, is a guide to civic engagement and governeance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small community input to create more agile, competitive and economically resilient cities.

The book features vivid case studies highlighting the work of pioneers in New York, Boston, Chicago and more, providing a compelling model for the future of governance. The book will help mayors, chief technology officers, city administrators, agency directors, civic groups and nonprofit leaders break out of current paradigms to collectively address civic problems.

The Responsive City is the culmination of research originating from the Data-Smart City Solutions initiative, an ongoing project at Harvard Kennedy School working to catalyse adoption of data projects on the city level.

Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of Nesta, interviewed Professor Goldsmith on the 17 November here at Nesta.