The paradigm of smart cities in the framework of urban governance
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24965/gapp.v0i20.10536Keywords:
Smart cities, Technology, Urban governanceAbstract
Local governments through smart cities try to position themselves before the challenge of attracting investment and improving public services. In order to be more efficient, participatory, and sustainable, the city must be transformed through the use of new technologies, offering a better quality of life for its inhabitants. The concept of smart cities is now fashionable, so its definition is ambiguous due to the plurality of approaches from which the urban context is analyzed (Holland, 2008). This multitude of meanings of the concept, translated into Spanish as an intelligent city, has generated very varied typologies and a very broad literature on the subject, which has been increasing during the last years focused on studies on sustainability, the environment, governance, mobility, housing, multiculturalism, energy and technology among others, although from a more theoretical than practical perspective. The objective of this article is to know the paradigm of smart cities in the framework of urban governance, understood as «a new way of governing (...) a new method according to which society is governed» (Rhodes, 1996: 652-653), and all this from a descriptive-deductive methodology providing a conceptual structure in its beginnings to progressively get to know the findings of the research. Thus, this proposal seeks to respond to the relationship between the smart city, also known as smart city, and urban governance in the face of future challenges of participation, public ethics, sustainability, effectiveness and efficiency, transparency and accountability. of counts. It is not surprising that the main conclusions of this research do not place technology and derivatives, as the great tool or contribution of smart cities, but rather, the use and application that is made of them to improve the quality of life of their citizens. We must not forget that technology is a means to an end, and the true smart city must make optimal use of it to achieve good urban governance.
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