Citizens’ Voice as a Cornerstone of Making Territories Smart
<p>This paper aims to answer the call for studies on smart transformation in small and rural municipalities. It focuses on the ‘smart territory’ concept, which includes all the features of the smart city but considers a larger and less delimited urban area, as well as the intricacy of effects...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2023-10-01
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| author | Anna D’Auria Marco Tregua Manuel Carlos Vallejo-Martos Rocio Martínez-Jiménez |
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| description | <p>This paper aims to answer the call for studies on smart transformation in small and rural municipalities. It focuses on the ‘smart territory’ concept, which includes all the features of the smart city but considers a larger and less delimited urban area, as well as the intricacy of effects among towns and cities. To address such a space, the authors conducted an in-depth analysis of the Province of Jaén in Spain through a content analysis of interviews with representatives from local associations of citizens. The results confirmed that a participatory approach supports the territory management thanks to the government-to-citizens interactions that allow getting direct information: The citizens’ voice is about perspectives and opinions related to the status of different neighborhoods, towns, or villages, as well as the city, and real opportunities to shape a smart territory as theorized. The study’s contribution stems mostly from the category of actors involved, as the critical issues, as well as the opportunities in local development, are usually investigated by involving either local administrations or politicians and citizens. Listening to citizens’ voices also addresses the intricacies of a territory overcoming the limits of an approach based on a single town or city. Furthermore, detecting problems and opportunities in an urban context in this way can help in planning local smart development.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4ba51a09211d45afb383bd94a2735c4d2025-02-26T12:09:41ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1842-28452023-10-01197052710.24193/tras.70E.1790Citizens’ Voice as a Cornerstone of Making Territories SmartAnna D’Auria0Marco Tregua1Manuel Carlos Vallejo-Martos2Rocio Martínez-Jiménez3Assistant professor, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L’Orientale, Naples, ItalyAssociate professor, Department of Economics, Management and Institutions, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, ItalyProfessor, Department of Management, Marketing and Sociology, University of Jaén, Jaén, SpainAssociate professor, Department of Management, Marketing and Sociology, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain<p>This paper aims to answer the call for studies on smart transformation in small and rural municipalities. It focuses on the ‘smart territory’ concept, which includes all the features of the smart city but considers a larger and less delimited urban area, as well as the intricacy of effects among towns and cities. To address such a space, the authors conducted an in-depth analysis of the Province of Jaén in Spain through a content analysis of interviews with representatives from local associations of citizens. The results confirmed that a participatory approach supports the territory management thanks to the government-to-citizens interactions that allow getting direct information: The citizens’ voice is about perspectives and opinions related to the status of different neighborhoods, towns, or villages, as well as the city, and real opportunities to shape a smart territory as theorized. The study’s contribution stems mostly from the category of actors involved, as the critical issues, as well as the opportunities in local development, are usually investigated by involving either local administrations or politicians and citizens. Listening to citizens’ voices also addresses the intricacies of a territory overcoming the limits of an approach based on a single town or city. Furthermore, detecting problems and opportunities in an urban context in this way can help in planning local smart development.</p>https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/747smart territoryassociations of citizenscitizens’ voicesparticipationsplintering urbanism. |
| spellingShingle | Anna D’Auria Marco Tregua Manuel Carlos Vallejo-Martos Rocio Martínez-Jiménez Citizens’ Voice as a Cornerstone of Making Territories Smart Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences smart territory associations of citizens citizens’ voices participation splintering urbanism. |
| title | Citizens’ Voice as a Cornerstone of Making Territories Smart |
| title_full | Citizens’ Voice as a Cornerstone of Making Territories Smart |
| title_fullStr | Citizens’ Voice as a Cornerstone of Making Territories Smart |
| title_full_unstemmed | Citizens’ Voice as a Cornerstone of Making Territories Smart |
| title_short | Citizens’ Voice as a Cornerstone of Making Territories Smart |
| title_sort | citizens voice as a cornerstone of making territories smart |
| topic | smart territory associations of citizens citizens’ voices participation splintering urbanism. |
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