Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities
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UAM. Departamento de Ingeniería InformáticaPublisher
SAGE PublicationsDate
2021-08-01Citation
10.1177/0894439319877478
Social Science Computer Review, 39.4 (2021): 592–626
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0894-4393 (print); 1552-8286 (online)DOI
10.1177/0894439319877478Funded by
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (TIN2016-80630-P), and the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport (CAS18/00035)Project
Gobierno de España. TIN2016-80630-PEditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319877478Subjects
citizen engagement; citizen participation; creative cities; EUROCITIES network; smart cities; InformáticaRights
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Abstract
With the advent of smart cities (SCs), governance has been placed at the core of the debate on how to create public value and achieve a high quality of life in urban environments. In particular, given that public value is rooted in democratic theory and new technologies that promote networking spaces have emerged, citizen participation represents one of the principal instruments to make government open and close to the citizenry needs. Participation in urban governance has undergone a great development: from the first postmodernist ideals of countering expert dominance to today’s focus on learning and social innovation, where citizen participation is conceptualized as co-creation and co-production. Despite this development, there is a lack of research to know how this new governance context is taking place in the SC arena. Addressing this situation, in this article, we present an exhaustive survey of the research literature and a deep study of the experience in participative initiatives followed by SCs in Europe. Through an analysis of 149 SC initiatives from 76 European cities, we provide interesting insights about how participatory models have been introduced in the different areas and dimensions of the cities, how citizen engagement is promoted in SC initiatives, and whether the so-called creative SCs are those with a higher number of projects governed in a participatory way
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Google Scholar:Cortés-Cediel, María E.
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Cantador Gutiérrez, Iván
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Bolívar, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez
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