Knowing and governing smart cities: Four cases of citizen engagement with digital urbanism

Hoop, Evelien de; Moss, Timothy; Smith, Adrian; Löffler, Emanuel

doi:10.1016/j.ugj.2021.12.008

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“…Our study has several significant limitations. In the real world, considerable variation exists in contextbased regional distinctions and sociocultural variations to implement the living lab experiment (de Hoop et al, 2021;Leminen et al, 2017;Overdiek & Genova, 2021). Furthermore, the heterogeneity of objectives and strategies of introducing the living lab methodology, different contexts underlying the background, and various unexpected feedback lead to diverse outcomes (Giang et al, 2018).…”

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“…Many studies have been conducted on the effects of citizen participation and learning in a living lab. Civic engagement and learning within a living lab refers to the process by which policy and technical information to achieve project tasks is internalized into the capacity of participating citizens through the activities of the living lab (de Hoop et al, 2021;de Witte et al, 2021;Huang & Thomas, 2021;Mastelic et al, 2015;Park & Fujii, 2022;Seo, 2002). Prior research generally confirms the importance of citizen participation in the living lab (Barata et al, 2017;Campailla & Titley, 2019;Leminen et al, 2015Leminen et al, , 2017.…”

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Civic Engagement in a Citizen-Led Living Lab for Smart Cities: Evidence From South Korea

Park

Fujii

2023

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Smart cities have emerged in the hope of solving growing urban problems. In addition, unlike past citizen participation in tokenism, new technologies in smart cities have shed light on creating cities with high levels of civic engagement. However, contrary to expectations, technology-centric smart city development has resulted in a lack of opportunities for citizen participation. Consequently, smart cities are increasingly adopting a citizen-centric living lab methodology. Previous research on living labs has emphasized the significance of civic engagement and the potential as a collaborative platform for governments, businesses, and citizens. However, keeping individuals engaged and motivated during the living lab process might be challenging. This study examined the significance of citizens’ active participation and determined the elements that influence the level of participation in a living lab. In this study, the first citizen-led living laboratory in South Korea was selected as the subject of a case study. An empirical analytic approach was adopted and a survey was conducted among living lab participants regarding their level of participation and the sociocultural elements that may impact it. Our findings revealed that living lab activities were associated with enhanced civic self-esteem and positive attitudes toward smart cities. Moreover, they display the socioeconomic elements that influence the degree of participation. This study offers evidence that living lab activities encourage citizen engagement by giving participants a sense of empowerment during the co-creation process with multiple stakeholders, boosting civic competency through learning activities, and improving a sense of community ownership.

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Civic Engagement in a Citizen-Led Living Lab for Smart Cities: Evidence From South Korea

Park

Fujii

2023

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“…In studies [9,10], attention is paid to the processes of urbanization as a prerequisite for the creation of "smart cities". The authors of [9] contributed to the development of a scientific program for the digitalization of cities in relation to alternative practices at the grassroots level, by reviewing and structuring data on urban space production and management.…”

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“…In [10], studies of "smart urbanism" mainly focus on the production of digital knowledge. As a response to previous work, this article explores the potential and limitations of digital devices that produce the knowledge needed to manage the urban environment.…”

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Development of methods for evaluating the effectiveness of smart cities under the conditions of digitalization of city governance

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This paper considers the processes of digitalization of urban management, which forms the prerequisites for solving the problem of the development of the concept of smart cities. As a result, the historical aspects of the formation of the Smart City concept are distinguished. Based on this, elements of the Smart City concept are highlighted at the present stage, such as vision, ecosystem, management, technological background, and financing. Generalization of the results of the study of the processes of digitalization of smart city management has made it possible to distinguish its traditional components, which include transport, energy, utilities, urban environment, security, and "smart" house. In order to ensure effective monitoring of the implementation and development of digital services in the smart city management system, it is proposed to use "city smartophores". The systematization of the Smart City formation experience provided an opportunity to distinguish the relevant models of digitalization of urban governance – decentralized, centralized, and local. The scope of application, initiators, advantages and disadvantages, and prospects for the development of each of them are determined. Unlike other results of the study of the effectiveness of the development of smart cities, it is suggested that the most vivid picture of ensuring a comfortable life in the city is demonstrated by the size of its population. It is proved that it is in the developed cities of any country in the world that there are positive rates of population growth. Quantitative criteria for determining the upper and lower limits of the efficiency of smart city development according to the selected indicator have been developed. The practical application of the results of the study is the possibility of predicting further directions of development of the smart city based on a quantitative assessment of the level of its digital transformation

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“…Such choices have an effect on what data is produced in smart cities and how this is interpreted -thereby shaping urban governance: what is visible, and how it is visible, affects what can be governed, how, where towards, by whom and in whose interests (Cashmore et al 2019;Evans et al 2019). Smart knowledge politics can be considered as a subset of knowledge politics, characterized by the prominence of data, information and knowledge produced with digital technologies (de Hoop et al 2022). Indeed, existing critical urban studies research on smart urbanism has highlighted the unequal power relationships that get created or reinforced through objectivist understandings of data (Kitchin 2014b;Luque-Ayala and Marvin 2019); highlighted the way urban data extraction operates as a troubling new form of capital and how smart urbanism intensifies neo-liberal competition between cities (Sadowski 2020;March and Ribera-Fumaz 2014); highlighted how market-oriented and IT-based smart city agendas obstruct citizens' ability to participate in the city, including their ability to exercise their democratic rights (Cardullo 2021); and highlighted how smart cities may re-inscribe unequal power relations of e.g.…”

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Deliberating the knowledge politics of smart urbanism

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and quality of life, the concerns of protestors resonate with critical urban scholars studying the political economies beneath smart cities (for an overview of this debate see e.g. Kitchin (2019a)). In recent years, the latter has shifted from a critical unpacking of existing smart urbanism initiatives towards the question of how more 'genuinely humanizing' (cf. Kitchin 2019b) or inclusive and emancipatory (cf. Joss et al. 2017) smart cities can be realized 'from the ground up' (cf. Saunders and Baeck 2015). While we sympathize with the latter move, we argue that controversies such as the Sidewalk Toronto controversy are symptomatic for a deeper and often hidden challenge that underpins smart urban initiatives, namely the limited understanding of how deliberative spaces can meaningfully help navigate knowledge politics: the power of, and over, the production, circulation and use of data, information and insightful knowledge about urban complexity.This Frontiers paper therefore presents a set of observations about existing deliberations on smart city knowledge politics that emerged from our case studies in European cities. Based thereon, we propose a set of research questions about deliberative spaces for smart knowledge politics that may foster inclusive and sustainable urban transformation. de Hoop et al. Urban Transformations (2022) 4:6

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Knowing and governing smart cities: Four cases of citizen engagement with digital urbanism

Cited by 15 publications

References 30 publications

Civic Engagement in a Citizen-Led Living Lab for Smart Cities: Evidence From South Korea

Civic Engagement in a Citizen-Led Living Lab for Smart Cities: Evidence From South Korea

Development of methods for evaluating the effectiveness of smart cities under the conditions of digitalization of city governance

Deliberating the knowledge politics of smart urbanism

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