Visualising and calculating the smart city : a dialogue perspective
(2022) In Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management 34(5). p.644-664- Abstract
Purpose: This study addresses the implications of smart city development paths (techno-centric and human-centric) by investigating the evolution of a city strategy, focusing on how different actors in a dialogue centred on strategic planning documents for Saint Petersburg, Russia, visualised the smart city and then made it calculable. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a case study based on a documentary analysis supported by ethnographic elements relying on the smart city conceptual proposals, the approved city strategy and the artifacts of expert discussions leading to the strategy implementation plan. Findings: Through the lens of dialogue theory, the authors show how government and non-government actors in different... (More)
Purpose: This study addresses the implications of smart city development paths (techno-centric and human-centric) by investigating the evolution of a city strategy, focusing on how different actors in a dialogue centred on strategic planning documents for Saint Petersburg, Russia, visualised the smart city and then made it calculable. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a case study based on a documentary analysis supported by ethnographic elements relying on the smart city conceptual proposals, the approved city strategy and the artifacts of expert discussions leading to the strategy implementation plan. Findings: Through the lens of dialogue theory, the authors show how government and non-government actors in different organisational settings devised techno-centric smart city calculations, which arose despite an initial human-centric vision. Research limitations/implications: While the case study allowed the study to illustrate the depth and richness of the context of the authoritarian Russian state where the role of citizens in public decision-making is rather limited, different and even contrasting results could be produced in other contexts. Practical implications: There is a gap between a smart city vision and its grounding in calculations. Thus, the human-centric elements require special attention, and the organisation of the dialogue on smart city strategy must enable plurality of voices besides those of government actors. Originality/value: The case suggests viewing the human-centric and techno-centric perspectives not as dichotomous, but rather emerging consecutively throughout the journey from an initial strategic vision to its implementation in the city's calculations.
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- author
- Trunova, Olga LU ; Khodachek, Igor and Khodachek, Aleksandr
- publishing date
- 2022-11-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Dialogue, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Smart city, Visualising and calculating
- in
- Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management
- volume
- 34
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 21 pages
- publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85131540042
- ISSN
- 1096-3367
- DOI
- 10.1108/JPBAFM-03-2021-0060
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2022, Olga Trunova, Igor Khodachek and Aleksandr Khodachek.
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- 64be939a-ef0c-4f42-bccb-58239a5d8867
- date added to LUP
- 2024-04-29 14:07:01
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title = {{Visualising and calculating the smart city : a dialogue perspective}},
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