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Becoming smart? Pursuit of sustainability in urban policy design

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  • Ilari Karppi
  • Jarmo Vakkuri

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The pursuit of sustainability through various smart solutions has become prominent in urban policy-making. We explore how cities utilize particular planning and management tools in this endeavour. We introduce the concept of sustainability proxies that are necessities in organizing institutional complexity. We show how that complexity is framed differently from the notorious decision-making silos. This paper provides theoretical accounts to understand the ambiguous nature of sustainability as a target for smart urbanity and scrutinizes the uses of sustainability proxies through an empirical case. The paper provides an account of how public management through proxies actually happens in urban policy-making.

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  • Ilari Karppi & Jarmo Vakkuri, 2020. "Becoming smart? Pursuit of sustainability in urban policy design," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(5), pages 746-766, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:746-766
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1718188
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    1. Mora, Luca & Gerli, Paolo & Ardito, Lorenzo & Messeni Petruzzelli, Antonio, 2023. "Smart city governance from an innovation management perspective: Theoretical framing, review of current practices, and future research agenda," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
    2. Francisco Maciá Pérez & José Vicente Berna Martínez & Iren Lorenzo Fonseca, 2021. "Modelling and Implementing Smart Universities: An IT Conceptual Framework," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-26, March.
    3. Gusti Ayu Made Suartika & Alexander Cuthbert, 2020. "The Sustainable Imperative—Smart Cities, Technology and Development," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-15, October.
    4. Shirley Suellen Thesari & Mauro Lizot & Flavio Trojan, 2021. "Municipal Public Budget Planning with Sustainable and Human Development Goals Integrated in a Multi-Criteria Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-18, September.

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