Urbanization and sustainable urban management are considered to be the most critical factors for future cities. To implement comprehensive strategies for managing urban development based on social, environmental, and economic issues, city managers must use integrated frameworks to direct available resources. In the era of modern urbanization, municipalities face multifaceted problems. Mayers and city managers must use advanced systems to collect vast amounts of data, information, and tacit knowledge in their organizations.
A knowledge management system (KMS) promotes a knowledge-based urban planning process concerning sustainable aspects. The Knowledge-Based City (KBC) is an integrated framework for applying advanced management to the maintenance and development of urban management, and this integrated framework is in line with the benefits of using classical urban planning and sustainable development processes.
Knowledge creation and dissemination in KM software can also improve local government competence and efficiency, make urban planning more knowledge-based, and provide more knowledge about citizens (to better respond to them).
In today's era, local government networks need tools to manage their knowledge assets to build adaptive capacity to deal with existing complexity and uncertainty.