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Title	Power Relationships In The Co-Production Of Smart City Initiatives
ID_Doc	42559
Authors	Castelnovo W.; Romanelli M.
Year	2021
Published	Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, 37
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47539-0_22
Abstract	Participatory smart cities promote urban development and transformation by involving citizens and communities in participation and co-production exercises. However, to take advantage of the citizens’ contribution to the success of smart city initiatives, interaction-defined and participation-based governance infrastructures should be implemented that return power to the people. An exploratory study shows that how the smart city collaborative/participatory governance questions the traditional power relationships between city governments and citizens is a still underexplored topic. The paper aims to help bridge this theoretical gap by discussing citizens’ co-production in smart city initiatives from the point of view of the power relationships. The main point of the paper is that to leverage the citizens’ smartness to develop a smart city, the power relationships between the city government and the citizens should be rebalanced, which entails a shift from a power-over domination-based logic to a power-with interactive and collaboration-based logic. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
Author Keywords	Co-production; Interactive governance; Participation; Power relationship; Smart city

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