Towards a Civic Approach to Urban Data: the Myths of Digital Universalism

The paper analyses the role of the urban scale digital twins in how we conceive and design urban spaces. At the core of the paper is the idea that in order to combine environmental equity and so- cial equity, it is pivotal to bring together the social and the technical viewpoints of urban planning. The focus of the paper is the exploration of how urban scale digital twins can promote sustainable development goals.