Smart City Dispatch · Glossary
Municipality
A legally or administratively defined local-government unit. A municipality may correspond closely to the built-up city, but it may also contain substantial suburban or rural territory - or represent only the central portion of a much larger urban region.
Municipality
A legally or administratively defined local-government unit. A municipality may correspond closely to the built-up city, but it may also contain substantial suburban or rural territory - or represent only the central portion of a much larger urban region.
Smart-city relevance: Smart-city authority, funding, procurement, and data ownership often follow municipal rather than physical urban boundaries.
Related: City proper; local government