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The role of social representation in producing public spaces: Amman as a case study 社会代表性在公共空间产生中的作用：以安曼为例

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.06.004

Anwar F. Ibrahim , Mayas Nadim Ahmad Taha , Duha Dawood Hussain Shqeirat

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Sustainable urban policy development in hill cities: A case study of Shimla's LULC changes and urban regeneration efforts 山地城市的可持续城市政策发展：西姆拉市土地利用价值变化与城市更新的案例研究

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.05.009

Amisha Thakur

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The sustainability of budget deficit and public debt on Ghanaian economy growth: The government intertemporal budget 预算赤字和公共债务对加纳经济增长的可持续性：政府跨期预算

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.05.002

David Mensah Awadzie , David Kwashie Garr , Isidore Komla Zotoo , Mensah Marfo

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Advancing smart public administration: Challenges and benefits of artificial intelligence 推进智慧公共管理：人工智能的挑战与好处

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.06.003

Aboud Barsekh-Onji , Zacarias Torres Hernandez , Edgar Oliver Cardoso Espinosa

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Spatial legibility and sustainability: A design research approach to Park Street’s urban morphology (1757-2020) 空间易读性与可持续性：公园街城市形态的设计研究方法（1757-2020）

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.06.005

Shilpi Chakraborty, Shiva Ji

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Evaluation of Brazilian cities from the perspective of smart cities: An analysis of cluster and information technology initiatives 智慧城市视角下的巴西城市评价：集群与信息技术举措分析

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.08.004

Lucas Felipe Barros Xavier , Ana Paula Henriques Gusmão de Araújo Lima , Fernando Henrique Taques

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Institutional Capacities and Urban Management: Barcelona and the COVID-19 Crisis 机构能力和城市管理：巴塞罗那与2019冠状病毒病危机

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.05.001

Miquel Salvador , David Sancho

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The rise of a peri-urban giant from the shadows of an African metropolitan area: A spotlight on Kasoa, Ghana 非洲大都市阴影下的近郊巨人崛起：聚焦加纳卡索阿

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.02.007

Charles Yaw Oduro , Theodora Oduro

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From policy to platforms: Analysing public engagement with Singapore's smart nation initiative through social media discourse 从政策到平台：通过社交媒体话语分析公众对新加坡智慧国家倡议的参与

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.04.001

Reza Shaker

{"title":"From policy to platforms: Analysing public engagement with Singapore's smart nation initiative through social media discourse","authors":"Reza Shaker","doi":"10.1016/j.ugj.2025.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ugj.2025.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the complex dynamics of smart city initiatives in Singapore through social media discourse, focusing specifically on the period following the Smart Nation program launch in 2014. Employing a mixed-methods approach combining computational text analysis with qualitative interpretation, we analyse Twitter and TikTok content to uncover how digital platforms mediate public engagement with urban technological initiatives. Our analysis reveals three key findings: First, public engagement with smart city initiatives shows platform-specific patterns that align with key Smart Nation policy implementations, demonstrating the increasing importance of platform-specific communication strategies in urban governance. Second, sentiment analysis, validated against smart city satisfaction indices, indicates generally positive public reception but reveals important variations across different demographic groups and policy areas. Third, social network analysis exposes a centralised communication structure dominated by institutional voices, raising questions about inclusive participation in smart city development. These findings extend platform urbanism theory by demonstrating how different digital platforms create distinct urban technological publics while highlighting the role of state actors in shaping platform dynamics. Comparative analysis with other Asian smart cities reveals distinctive features of Singapore’s institutional approach to smart city implementation. The study contributes to ongoing debates about citizen participation in smart city development while offering practical insights for policy makers navigating the challenges of platform-mediated urban governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101266,"journal":{"name":"Urban Governance","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 142-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144490382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lying flat city and rat race city: Chinese cities’ land development strategies 平地城市与竞争激烈的城市：中国城市的土地开发战略

Urban Governance Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ugj.2025.05.010

Nannan Xu

{"title":"Lying flat city and rat race city: Chinese cities’ land development strategies","authors":"Nannan Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.ugj.2025.05.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ugj.2025.05.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A characteristic feature of China’s urbanization is the active role of city governments in organizing and financing land development. Through this process, local governments capture trillions of yuan in land value annually, channeling these revenues into urban infrastructure—a phenomenon widely known as land finance. While existing studies have extensively documented the socio-economic effects of land finance, less attention has been paid to its institutional origins, particularly how local governments shaped its development. This article adopts a historical institutionalist approach to examine the formation of land and infrastructure development institutions in Chongqing and Beijing since the late 1990s. By comparing these two contrasting cases, the study reveals what efforts city governments could make to create an active land development strategy, and how the strategy could remain passive without these efforts. This article argues that entrepreneurial municipalism best characterises Chinese city governments’ strategic efforts in land development. Key efforts include: setting ambitious urban development goals, centralising land management authority, and providing political and economic support to public asset corporations of land and infrastructure development. Revealing these efforts might help cities in other developing countries to devise their land development strategies for capturing land value in rapid urbanisation and industrialisation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101266,"journal":{"name":"Urban Governance","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 155-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144490636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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