Planning and technological innovation: the governance challenges faced by English local authorities in adopting planning technologies

IF 2.9 3区 工程技术 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Ciaran Devlin, J. Coaffee
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ABSTRACT The term ‘smart city’ has become synonymous with a technologically cultivated utopia, where urban problems can be solved computationally. This approach to urban development has been promoted as a method of enabling city administrations to become more proactive when dealing with issues including pollution, traffic flow and congestion, public safety, energy use, and urban planning. This trend towards using technology in urban management and planning has sparked research and development initiatives across the planet. In the UK, the #PlanTech trend is a governmental initiative that aims to improve engagement between various actors in the planning system, including local authorities and central government, with tech start-ups and digital entrepreneurs who can design solutions to the problems currently experienced by planners, developers, and citizens alike. Despite the significant opportunities that technologies offer city council planning departments in terms of productivity, existing governance models can be shown to represent a significant obstacle to implementation. This paper uses case study research conducted at two English city councils – Coventry and Leeds – to examine the implications of planning reforms and digital transformation of public services on urban planning governance. Utilizing the information gained from a combination of semi-structured interviews and stakeholder engagement exercises, it examines the growing emphasis on technology in planning practice within the public sector and discusses the potential implications that it may have for current governance arrangements. Finally, it suggests what a framework for future urban planning governance within an English political context, in the era of the smart city might require. The paper overall offers a critical view of how current urban planning practice and governance procedures are being quickly subsumed by digital technologies which offer novel and effective methods for professional planners yet are undermined, or are inhibited, by current governance arrangements.
规划与技术创新:英国地方当局在采用规划技术时面临的治理挑战
“智慧城市”一词已经成为技术培育乌托邦的代名词,在那里城市问题可以通过计算来解决。这种城市发展方法作为一种方法得到推广,使城市管理部门在处理污染、交通流量和拥堵、公共安全、能源使用和城市规划等问题时更加积极主动。这种在城市管理和规划中使用技术的趋势引发了全球范围内的研究和开发倡议。在英国,#PlanTech趋势是一项政府倡议,旨在改善规划系统中各个参与者(包括地方当局和中央政府)与科技初创企业和数字企业家之间的互动,这些企业家可以为规划者、开发商和公民目前遇到的问题设计解决方案。尽管技术在生产力方面为市议会规划部门提供了重要的机会,但现有的治理模式可能会成为实施的重大障碍。本文采用在英国两个市议会——考文垂和利兹——进行的案例研究来考察规划改革和公共服务数字化转型对城市规划治理的影响。利用从半结构化访谈和利益相关者参与练习中获得的信息,它研究了公共部门规划实践中对技术的日益重视,并讨论了它可能对当前治理安排产生的潜在影响。最后,它提出了在英国政治背景下,在智慧城市时代,未来城市规划治理的框架可能需要什么。总体而言,本文提供了一个批判性的观点,即当前的城市规划实践和治理程序如何被数字技术迅速纳入,数字技术为专业规划师提供了新颖有效的方法,但却受到当前治理安排的破坏或抑制。
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