The Smart City and the Creation of Local Public Value

Federico Fontana ()
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Federico Fontana: University of Genoa

A chapter in Smart City, 2014, pp 117-137 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The creation of public value Public value in a financially sustainable way, which is the distinctive function of local authorities, is becoming increasingly complex. This is due to many reasons, and most notably to the roles played by different stakeholders, such as citizens, businesses, other public authorities and not-for-profit organizations. To address this difficulty, many local authorities state that they wish to become ‘smart’. A smart city is meant to be actively engaged in improving the quality of life of its citizens and in pursuing sustainable growth, thanks to the wide use of ICT. The aim of this chapter is two-fold. On a theoretical level, it aims at contributing to the definition of smart city and at critically analyzing its role in the creation of public value Public value . On a practical level, it assesses the adoption of the smart city model Smart city model by a significant number of large and medium-size Italian cities, in order to draw useful recommendations for the future.

Keywords: Smart city; Urban strategic planning Urban strategic planning; Creation of local public value Public value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06160-3_6

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