Abstract
Abstract. This research considers the creation of resilient organizational models of urban governance to foster urban sustainability. Building on large-scale urban experimentation initiatives, we identify relevant factors in establishing urban experimentation with the help of digital platforms as a means to support such resilient organizational models. Our findings suggest that digital platforms help establish urban experimentation platforms (UXPs) as a core means to innovate towards urban sustainability. UXPs utilize digital platforms to coordinate policy measures and stimulate collective intelligence in order to reach a sustained local socio-technical transformation process. Based on these empirical findings, we use a systems lens to decompose urban experimentation into interconnected sub-systems and then describe some characteristics of their dynamic interaction. Our goal is to develop a System Dynamics model and simulations to support urban public authority decision makers in formulating and implementing policy interventions towards urban sustainability.
Highlights
Urban governance is confronted with challenges such as rising energy and water consumption, pollution, traffic and greenhouse gas emission and others more (Acuto and Parnell, 2016; United Nations, 2015; 2017)
Our research investigates the organizational structures conditioning the dynamics of urban governance—that are instrumental to reaching urban sustainability
Such models allow to capture and discuss the dynamics inherent to the models and identify relevant systemic patterns and related policy recommendations to inform policy makers. (‘Policy recommendations’ as used in System Dynamics jargon relate to the management responses, decisions and interventions of stakeholders as suggested by a considered system model and simulations, which in our case can refer to urban policy-making, but goes beyond that)
Summary
Urban governance is confronted with challenges such as rising energy and water consumption, pollution, traffic and greenhouse gas emission and others more (Acuto and Parnell, 2016; United Nations, 2015; 2017). The goal is to reach urban sustainability, understood as a city’s capability to respond to societal challenges on a continued basis, and to proactively design the urban living environment in view of future societal and environmental good, on the local scale (Rehm et al, 2021) Part of these efforts targets economic prosperity, increasingly a matter of city competitiveness, supported by creating attractive regulatory environments for businesses, people, culture and the environment (Visnjic et al, 2016; The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2013). Of particular importance is to understand how factors that contribute to city competitiveness can be sustained To this end, municipalities need to find ways to attract, develop and retain capital, businesses and human talent, to engage in vivid exchange with other economic centres (van Winden et al, 2014).
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