IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cjutxx/v31y2024i4-5p69-104.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain

Author

Listed:
  • Wentao Wang
  • Dezhi Li
  • Guanying Huang
  • Shenghua Zhou
  • Yongheng Zhao
  • Huan Zhou
  • Yahan Luan

Abstract

Identifying barriers aligned with the development objectives and their interrelationships in Citizen-Centric Smart City (CCSC) is pivotal for devising tailored developmental strategies. Hence, this article aims to conduct a comprehensive exploration of these elements, with a specific focus on citizens’ sense of gain (CSG), a crucial component of citizen-centricity. The study conceptualizes the CCSC development objectives and identifies 20 barriers that align with them by employing a literature review and the Delphi method. Besides, the barriers are analyzed by adopting the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL)-Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM)-Cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification (MICMAC) method. The study reveals that CCSC in China should focus on making CSG more comprehensive and sustainable in five dimensions decomposed from the objectives, “Lack of departments to interface with citizens’ feedback” is identified as the barrier with the highest causality and centrality, and “Lack of guiding framework and policy system for CCSC” is a fundamental barrier to the China’s CCSC development. By identifying the critical barriers and suggesting practical solutions, this study can help policymakers and practitioners worldwide to prioritize their efforts towards creating more sustainable and CCSCs.

Suggested Citation

  • Wentao Wang & Dezhi Li & Guanying Huang & Shenghua Zhou & Yongheng Zhao & Huan Zhou & Yahan Luan, 2024. "Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain," Journal of Urban Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(4-5), pages 69-104, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjutxx:v:31:y:2024:i:4-5:p:69-104
    DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2024.2402207
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/10630732.2024.2402207
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/10630732.2024.2402207?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cjutxx:v:31:y:2024:i:4-5:p:69-104. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cjut20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.