Investigating the Indicators of Good Urban Governance with an Emphasis on Smartness (Case study: Tabriz metropolis)

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1 Ph. D of Urban and Regional Economics, University of Tabriz, Faculty of Economics and Management, Tabriz, Iran

2 Ph. D of Institutional Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

3 Ph.D of Economics and Management, University of Tabriz , Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

Increasing urbanization, population growth and the social, economic and environmental problems resulting from them, along with the growth and expansion of information and communication technology - as the main axis of transformation in the world - is the main feature of the 21st century. To deal with the challenge of cities, the concept of smart city has been presented. Good urban governance is presented as a prerequisite for a smart city by national and international organizations. Therefore, the idea of urban management and governance has been removed from its traditional state and improved. In other words, good and smart governance involves an open dialogue between citizens and city officials through an active ICT platform. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to answer the question that with the new changes in the field of technology in the cities of the country, especially the metropolises, what is the state of good governance indicators in the studied metropolis? And is the urban management in Tabriz metropolis able to improve the desirable urban governance indicators in line with the smart city indicators? The answers to the research questions have been done by using a combination of quantitative and qualitative models. The indicators of smart city and good urban governance have been extracted using questionnaire tools and statistics available in statistical yearbooks and analyzed in Python programming environment. The results show that the overall score of good governance in Tabriz metropolis is 0.436. Among the five indicators introduced by the United Nations, the effectiveness index is the most favorable and the equality index is the most unfavorable among other indicators.

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  • Receive Date: 31 July 2023
  • Revise Date: 15 December 2023
  • Accept Date: 20 January 2024

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