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| Title | The Role Of Citizens In Smart Cities And Urban Infrastructures |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 56512 |
| Authors | Hernàndez C.A. |
| Year | 2020 |
| Published | Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies: Handbook on Planning, Design, Development, and Regulation |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816816-5.00010-3 |
| Abstract | In this chapter we can see how society evolution changes the role of citizens in governance of modern cities as well as its role in relation to city infrastructures. Society has changed, it has evolved. Beyond digital revolution, citizens have acquired a restless profile, they are democratically more mature, they want to know, understand, think, and influence in public policies, and in everything that affects their environments. We analyze and see, through which formulas and concepts, governance has adapted to this social changes and how citizens pass from a passive role to an active one. We analyze proved formulas as open government, smart cities, sustainable development goals, and we explain the meaning of new concepts that appear to be put into practice, such as governance or digital governance. We also analyze, and this is the deal of this chapter, how all this changes have influenced in the role of citizens in urban infrastructure in the world of smart cities. What is the role of citizens and how has this evolved in the different phases of implementation of an urban infrastructure. We can see it through theory and practice, but also through concrete examples, real cases of citizen’s role in infrastructures governance. We can also analyze the benefits of this new citizen role: being more involved; more of a participatory; and, more of a protagonist. In addition, the deployment of the infrastructure has its own benefits: greater transparency that diminishes corruption; and, in return, increases citizen confidence. As a summary, in the world of digital revolution and smart cities, citizens have become a fundamental part of the design, implementation, and governance of our cities and, in particular, their infrastructure. © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| Author Keywords | cities; Citizens; digital transformation; governance; implication; infrastructures; management; open government; smart cities; smart governance; transparency; urbanism |
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