Cybernetics and the 4D Smart City: Smartness as Awareness

Rönkkö, Emilia; Herneoja, Aulikki; Oikarinen, Essi

doi:10.3390/challe9010021

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“…All these recent approaches highlight a holistic framework and systemic nature of both the smart city and the service system. This also resonates with the idea of a city as a social-cybernetic system [35,36] including citizen feedback and cyclical learning. What can be seen as a potential risk is that, while leading smart cities are expertly using data and intelligent analytics respond to specific challenges of smart cities [2,37], the gap between leading and lagging cities may continue to grow in the future.…”

Section: Previous Research and Paper Positioningsupporting

confidence: 53%

Working across Boundaries in Urban Land Use and Services Planning—Building Public Sector Capabilities for Digitalisation

Rönkkö

Herneoja

2021

Smart Cities

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This article addresses the challenges and capability gaps confronted by public administrations concerning digital transformation and the use of novel tools in the context of land use, facilities and urban services planning. The present state of planning and management processes in Finland is introduced and reflected through experimental piloting conducted in two Finnish cities. Participatory action research and design research methodology was utilised to identify the main challenges as well as unravel the possibilities of digital transformation in the context of public services planning. The resulting analysis revealed the critical importance of facilitating integrative policies and coordination when working across knowledge boundaries between administrative domains. The paper contributes to a wider theoretical and conceptual understanding, as it discusses the advantages and feasibility of digital tools as boundary objects for cross-sectoral work in smart, people-centred urban governance. The authors see this direction of research as a fruitful ground for further investigations within the interdisciplinary urban planning research context.

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Section: Previous Research and Paper Positioningsupporting

confidence: 53%

Working across Boundaries in Urban Land Use and Services Planning—Building Public Sector Capabilities for Digitalisation

Rönkkö

Herneoja

2021

Smart Cities

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“…In the same way as smart city discourse has embraced the idea of sustainability, smartness has been conceptualized as the ability to increase cities' sustainability and eco-efficiency [86] in the context of city ecosystems [43,87]. Smartness and circularity in the context of urban management actually bear some similarities [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

Smart Circular Cities: Governing the Relationality, Spatiality, and Digitality in the Promotion of Circular Economy in an Urban Region

Anttiroiko

2023

Sustainability

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This article discusses the governance of a smart-green transition in an urban region. The focus is on how the modes of public governance relate to relationality, spatiality, and digitality, which are of vital importance in determining the success of the transition in question. The empirical inquiry is based on observations of the case of the Tampere urban region in Finland, which exemplifies such governance efforts in the Nordic welfare society context. The discussion shows that the relationality in the given context is fragmentary, dominated by persuasive network governance and soft means of exerting pressure. Municipalities assume many roles in CE governance, which matches their urge to utilize different institutional logics from hierarchies to markets and networks. Rather than a genuine authority, municipalities emerge as facilitators and enablers. Spatiality is highlighted in the formation of designated areas that serve circularity and also provide brand benefits, as shown by the eco-industrial park in the city of Nokia. Digitalization is an underdeveloped area in the circular economy agenda vis-à-vis its assumed potential. Its relevance has been identified by institutional players in the urban-regional governance field, but its realization seems to require both nationally coordinated actions and local solutions that compensate for the lack of a critical mass of developers and users in the circular economy ecosystem. Lastly, regarding urban governance, the parallel utilization of different modes of governance forms a complex setting, in which increasingly sophisticated forms of hybrid governance are emerging. Most notably, in the case of the Tampere urban region, the promotion of a circular economy by intermediaries is supplemented by novel dynamic assemblages that utilize different institutional logics within loosely governed processes that aim at integrating a circular economy into business models and urban development.

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“…Real-time information sharing on IoT smart city platforms [23,117,119,120,122,123,126,129,130,136,138,139,145,147,[150][151][152][153][154][155][156] The city (especially local authorities) should focus on building smart environments (with free wireless internet, online parking systems, online trip planning systems for planning routes and the use of means of transport, traffic control, commercial sharing platforms and public platforms. blockchain etc.)…”

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Assessing Resources Management for Sharing Economy in Urban Logistics

2020

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Sharing economy requires cities to redefine their management strategies. As a consequence of the development of new ideas, the main aim of modern cities should focus on achieving the sustainable use of resources. In the existing literature, only a partial analysis of resources management in cities can be found. For this reason, the authors decided to prepare the framework for empirical research about resources management in sharing economy in cities, especially in the urban logistics system. The main aim of the study is systematizing criteria related to the assessment of the management of urban resources in the era of sharing economy. To achieve the goal of the research, a systematic literature review was made according to chosen approaches and procedures. This resulted in creating a set of criteria for the analysis and evaluation of resources management in urban areas. It contains five areas with 26 criteria and a map of assumed correlations between them. Those outcomes can be used by local authorities or even other urban logistics stakeholders to define or improve their actions aimed at developing a sharing economy services portfolio on the local market. Additionally, they constitute a set of initial information for further scientific research.

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Cybernetics and the 4D Smart City: Smartness as Awareness

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Working across Boundaries in Urban Land Use and Services Planning—Building Public Sector Capabilities for Digitalisation

Working across Boundaries in Urban Land Use and Services Planning—Building Public Sector Capabilities for Digitalisation

Smart Circular Cities: Governing the Relationality, Spatiality, and Digitality in the Promotion of Circular Economy in an Urban Region

Assessing Resources Management for Sharing Economy in Urban Logistics

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