As a research domain, the smart city keeps growing, despite the remaining contradictions and ambiguity related to its conceptual aspects. We propose to dig deeper into the complex socio-technical nature of the smart city and examine the concept through the lens of different public governance paradigms, therefore aligning it with the sustainability outcomes. Embracing interrelated dimensions of humans, technologies and organisations, the smart city can be viewed through the intersection of public governance paradigms (digital governance, collaborative governance and networks). The case of the smart city initiative of Tampere in Finland serves as an empirical illustration of how the proposed conceptual model might be applied in practice. Providing a novel approach to the smart city from a public management perspective, this model would allow policymakers to acquire a more comprehensive understanding of smart city governance and its multi-dimensional outcomes, in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability. This approach enables the unlocking of the potential to generate multiple values for each group of actors and ensure more effective integration of smart initiatives, policies and projects, based on the public governance paradigms.

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智慧城市处于可持续发展公共治理范式的交叉点

作为一个研究领域，智慧城市不断发展，尽管其概念方面仍然存在矛盾和模糊性。我们建议更深入地挖掘智慧城市复杂的社会技术性质，并通过不同公共治理范式的视角来审视这一概念，从而使其与可持续发展成果保持一致。智慧城市涵盖了人类、技术和组织的相互关联的维度，可以通过公共治理范式（数字治理、协作治理和网络）的交叉来看待。芬兰坦佩雷智慧城市倡议的案例作为所提出的概念模型如何应用于实践的实证例证。该模型从公共管理的角度为智慧城市提供了一种新颖的方法，将使政策制定者能够更全面地了解智慧城市治理及其在社会、环境和经济可持续性方面的多维成果。这种方法能够释放潜力，为每组参与者创造多种价值，并确保基于公共治理范式更有效地整合智能举措、政策和项目。