TY - JOUR
T1 - Urban experimentation and institutional arrangements
AU - Raven, Rob
AU - Sengers, Frans
AU - Spaeth, Philipp
AU - Xie, Linjun
AU - Cheshmehzangi, Ali
AU - de Jong, Martin
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Currently little is known about how institutional arrangements co-evolve with urban experimentation. This paper mobilizes neo-institutional literature and recent urban experimentation literature as a framework to explore how and why institutional arrangements differ across urban contexts. Empirically the paper focusses on smart city initiatives in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Ningbo. These three cities are frontrunners in adopting a comprehensive smart city agenda, but they do so in different ways. The paper examines regulative, normative and cognitive elements of institutional arrangements, explores how they shape experimentation, and reflects on their place-based specificities. The comparative analysis suggests that the focus of, and approach to, experimentation can be understood as resting in a (possibly unique) combination of strategic agency and dynamics at multiple spatial scales.
AB - Currently little is known about how institutional arrangements co-evolve with urban experimentation. This paper mobilizes neo-institutional literature and recent urban experimentation literature as a framework to explore how and why institutional arrangements differ across urban contexts. Empirically the paper focusses on smart city initiatives in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Ningbo. These three cities are frontrunners in adopting a comprehensive smart city agenda, but they do so in different ways. The paper examines regulative, normative and cognitive elements of institutional arrangements, explores how they shape experimentation, and reflects on their place-based specificities. The comparative analysis suggests that the focus of, and approach to, experimentation can be understood as resting in a (possibly unique) combination of strategic agency and dynamics at multiple spatial scales.
KW - comparative case study
KW - institutional arrangements
KW - smart cities
KW - Urban experimentation
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U2 - 10.1080/09654313.2017.1393047
DO - 10.1080/09654313.2017.1393047
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85032020221
SN - 0965-4313
SP - 1
EP - 24
JO - European Planning Studies
JF - European Planning Studies
ER -