
W MARTIN de JongErasmus University Rotterdam | EUR · Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
W MARTIN de Jong
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Introduction
I am scientific director of the Erasmus Initiative for the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. This is a cross-disciplinary research centre where topics of social, economic, environmental and spatial inclusion and exclusion are studied.
I conduct research in the fields of inclusive urban development, sustainable urban development and planning/ decision-making in China
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Developing an appropriate governance model for smart city is complicated as it involves a variety of social and technical components. This article addresses the question of how a network model can provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic interactions among smart city components and their evolution over time by proposing a network-based...
The network properties of the global waste trade were assessed by using time series data of material and monetary flows between 2000 and 2022 from the online experimental database of Chatham House. More specifically, indicators from ecological network analysis and ascendency analysis were used to identity patterns which may not otherwise be directl...
Urban infrastructure development is one principal way people are transforming the natural world and their living conditions. It is important for humanity, but it can also cause major impacts to the environment, such as huge amounts of solid waste and CO 2 emissions. Considering this, the circular economy (CE) is a promising alternative to the tradi...
Rotterdam is a post-industrial city confronted with energy transitions and inclusion of a large group of vulnerable citizens that does not participate in the labour market. This chapter discusses how the city of Rotterdam tries to realise a more inclusive energy transition and challenges within this process. We combine literature from inclusive cit...
Considering the importance of waste metals for the transition to circular economies, this study follows a bioinspired approach to evaluate their material and monetary global trade patterns for sustainability and equity. Between 2000 and 2022, the global trade grew by 5 % in trading countries, by 37 % in trade links, by 71 % in
material flows, and b...
Purpose-The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between being an inclusive city and branding oneself as such, as more cities adopt the inclusive city concept as part of their brand identity.
Design/methodology/approach-This paper builds theory by introducing a typology that categorizes cities based on their level of inclusion...
Globally, smart cities attract billions of dollars in investment annually, with related market opportunities forecast to grow year-on-year. The enormous resources poured into their development consist of financial capital, but also natural, human and social resources converted into infrastructure and real estate. The latter act as physical capital...
Cities are increasingly adopting advanced technologies to address complex challenges. Applying technologies such as information and communication technology, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and autonomous systems in cities' design, planning, and management can cause disruptive changes in their social, economic, and environmental compos...
In this Supplementary Document (PDF file below), we summarise the spatial typology of smart cities that we used in our article on the smart city as manifestation of 21st century capitalism (De Jong et al, 2024). The document lists six spatial types of smart city: [1] Science parks and smart campuses; [2] Innovation districts; [3] Smart neighbourhoo...
Purpose
This paper aims to examine the unique Chinese context by analyzing the city labels (e.g. smart city and eco city) used by Chinese local governments at or above the provincial capital level to represent themselves (adopted city labels) and the developmental pathways they actually pursued (adopted developmental pathways).
Design/methodology/...
Frugal Innovation (FI), with its focus on basic functionalities, can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper explores how FI navigates and integrates the environmental, social, and economic pillars of sustainability through a comprehensive literature review and the development of a novel FI typology.
Our contributions...
Ranking cities is considered an effective instrument to rate and qualify the specific image of cities and encourage them to define and improve sustainable development strategies, but it has also been criticized for generating biased outcomes. Recently, the number of rankings for inclusive cities is rising, in fact along with growing investments in...
Xiong’an New Area is not only a newly emerging and nationally endorsed technopole, it is also regarded as a test-bed for novel forms of governance and financial management in China. Although it is currently only in its starting phase, Xiong’an demonstrates that various institutional features are very different from those found in traditional techno...
Rapid global urbanization, urban renewal and changes in people's lifestyles have led to both an increase in waste generation and more complex waste types. In response to these changes, many local governments have invested in municipal solid waste infrastructure (MSWI) to implement circular strategies. However, matching and bridging the costly and l...
https://www.iees.tuc.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IEES2023-program-280923.pdf
With rapid high-speed railway (HSR) developments in China, HSR-based transit-oriented development (TOD) has proliferated across the country. Although local governments claim that HSR station areas are planned according to TOD principles, some scholars argue that these station areas actually contribute to unsustainable development. This study invest...
Realizing a circular economy (CE) has been widely recognized by practitioners and researchers as the key to the transition toward sustainability. Thus far the academic emphasis has been predominantly on economic and environmental aspects. However, the development and implementation of CE initiatives actually rely on extensive collaboration at the s...
Chinese cities are experiencing rapid urban development while facing severe challenges of environmental pollution. China's central government has proposed several policies to reduce urban waste. However, little is known about the adoption of these policies. Here, we raise the question how can circular policies be classified, and how can this classi...
For many islands, the answer to the question “why a locally, self-sustaining, and regenerative economy is needed?” is clear. The struggle often lies in the “how”. Here, we argue that tools from regenerative economics, which follow an island economy-as-an-organism analogy, offer valuable and complementary insights to socio-metabolic research. Indica...
Measuring Corporate Sustainability (CS) has been identified as an important enabler for integrating sustainability into corporate practices. Different methodologies and frameworks for measuring CS have been developed in the literature with limited success, as reflected by the lack of application in the real world. Among practitioners, the effort ha...
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine how five different multi-level governance (MLG) models affect place branding (PB) performance in Saudi Arabia.
Design/methodology/approach
In hierarchical administrative systems, central governments exert control on PB, influencing its effectiveness. While PB as such is widely studied, the effect of...
In the quest for Smart City (SC) development, numerous examples of ‘good practices’ have circulated in national and international policy arenas. Learning from good practices elsewhere is a common approach for cities to initiate and develop SC policies of their own. Nevertheless, because of political, legal and cultural differences across countries...
Universities play an important role in any scientific and technological innovation system. Previous studies have indicated that more generous public research funding resulted in higher research output in universities. Our study, however, proposes that the positive impact of public funds is much weaker in less-prestigious universities than in presti...
Against the background of regional development, this article analyses the rise and fall of ‘thin identities’, which tend to be utilitarian and deployed to promote regional development. We focus on two constructed regional identities in the Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) in China: Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Guangdong‐Hong Kong‐Macau Greater Bay A...
The development of high-speed railway (HSR) new towns in China represents a new phase of suburbanization and has had a significant impact on urban expansion, but not all of its mechanisms and drivers have been studied. This article aims to understand the booming development of HSR new towns in China through the theoretical lens of state entrepreneu...
As a city label, the regenerative city appeared in literature around 2010 but received limited attention [1]. Even though regeneration is a fundamental pillar of a circular economy, it is often omitted from research or discussed mainly in qualitative terms. Here, we explore tools from regenerative economics, a scientific field based on energy netwo...
In response to the mounting environmental problems the circular economy (CE) has become a popular policy concept to achieve sustainable production and consumption goals (SDG12). In line with this China's national government has issued and implemented a series of policies over the last fifteen years, leading to a sudden increase in the volume of CE...
The potential for carbon emissions avoidance through post-consumer recycling has been highlighted in the "Zero-Waste City" initiatives in China, which call for increasing household participation in the community recycling programs. A shift from a facility-oriented strategy to behavior-oriented norm building at the community level provides the local...
Creative cities tend to generate higher levels of innovation and economic growth as well as be vibrant places to live. Many cities in the world have adopted the creative city label to realise these benefits. It is not certain, and in fact disputed by authors such as Richard Florida (2017), that creative cities will also show high levels of inclusio...
The first step for transforming the current linear and degenerative socio-economic systems into ones that are circular and regenerative is to understand how they grow and develop. Here, we explore whether there are limits to robustness of a socio-economic system as the result of a linear metabolic structure, and how those limits could theoretically...
City branding as produced by local governments has been widely recognized as a modern version of government communication. Local governments convey attractive features of their identity to current and potential stakeholders in their cities. In this contribution, we examine how municipal governments have used urban design as a form of city branding...
Organizations are under mounting pressure to adapt to and to adopt corporate sustainability (CS) practices. Notwithstanding the increasing research attention given to the subject and the meaningful theoretical contributions, it is claimed that a definition, and a commonly accepted understanding of the concept of corporate sustainability, is still m...
Sustainable urban transformation has become a mantra for Chinese cities. While most studies focus on sustainable urbanization in megacities, the far larger number of medium-sized cities is understudied, although the latter face more severe urban problems. This article develops a framework for examining policy change in sustainable urban development...
The rapid high-speed railway development in China has faced many institutional challenges for the integrated development of transport and land use in station areas. This paper aims to gain insight into the institutional rules that structure the actors’ interactions and how they influence the integrated development in station areas. The Institutiona...
Mapping the breath of Smart City Governance post-Covid-19: Critical Reflections on the Long-Term Impact of Digitalisation on Our Lives
Convenors: Araz Taeihagh and Martin de Jong
National University of Singapore and Erasmus University Rotterdam
Workshop and Special Section Organisers
Araz Taeihagh, Email, Website1 Website2
Policy Systems Group, L...
[Open access article: see DOI link] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This data article presents a tripartite dataset that formed the empirical basis for a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the use of city labels denoting sustainable urbani...
Ascendency analysis is a systematic method that can provide insights for a balanced transition to a circular economy. It does so by quantifying both the capacity of complex networks to develop as well as their robustness (i.e. sustainability) by considering their efficiency (ability to streamline resources and information) and resilience (ability t...
Considering its relatively low circularity rate (11.8% in 2019), the EU set several waste management targets as part of its roadmap to a circular economy yet the decision about which transition pathway to follow is not trivial. The maximization of circularity in human made systems is intended to function as a catalyst for this transition albeit at...
City promotion, city marketing and city branding are all frequently mentioned and examined in the literature on urban governance. Based on the goals and characteristics of different city branding strategies, this study identifies a growing level of sophistication from city promotion via city marketing to city branding and proposes that the degree o...
Co-production is a solution by which the government provides public services. Co-production theory is built upon Western experience and currently focuses on the types of co-production in different policy stages, the barriers and governance strategies for co-production. However, little attention is paid to how political background will influence the...
With the societal cracks resulting from decade-long neoliberal policies becoming increasingly visible in many countries, capitalism as the most suitable institutional system to produce material wealth, environmental sustainability and social stability has come under growing attack. This contribution examines what the growing army of recent heterodo...
When the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic started to manifest itself across the globe at an unprecedented pace and magnitude, the various emergency response strategies pursued by highly affected countries in Europe raised many questions about their supposed effectiveness. To contain the outbreak, a rapid and adequate emergency response was vital...
Europe’s urban population is projected to increase substantially due to demographic changes, economic growth, and the provision of high quality of life and services. The high urbanisation rates across European cities will likely lead to the extraction, production, and consumption of larger volumes of resources and, consequently, to the generation o...
Most High-Speed Railway (HSR) station areas in China can be found at the urban periphery or in suburban areas, a phenomenon that has often been criticised. While debate about the influence these location choices have on the economic and sustainable development of cities rages on, little attention has been paid to the decision-making processes leadi...
Special Issue on “Governance of Technology in Smart Cities”
Deadline for manuscript submissions extended to 30 September 2021.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past decade, amidst the acceleration of competition among cities for businesses and talent, which has resulted in a focus on economics and provision of engineering s...
Many local governments engaging in sustainable urban development also have a growing interest in becoming inclusive too, brand themselves as such and develop policies to become inclusive cities. However, knowing what exactly this entails and how it can be achieved is not always quite straightforward and requires thorough theoretical and empirical e...
China is often viewed as an emerging experimental base for transit-oriented development (TOD) practices because of its rapid urban growth and development of mass transit networks. The implementation of TOD can be heavily influenced by institutional barriers to urban growth. However, some newly emerging types of TOD practice allow planners and decis...
Local governments in China actively promote low carbon city pilots to respond to the challenges of climate change mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals, including building sustainable cities and communities, and taking climate action. However, relatively little is known about the actual implementation of programs to achieve sustainable cit...
Many countries adhere to the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development creed that innovation is good for the economy. Experiments are often used to intentionally create space for innovation. Decisions allowing experiments result in temporary legal enclaves for a few, excluding many others. Therefore, they come with risks. The aim of th...
SDG11 – ‘making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ – draws attention to the criticality of urban governance in the quest for sustainable development. Reflecting this, diverse city labels, such as ‘sustainable city’ and ‘smart city’, have been mobilized by urban actors and scholars to consider cities’ responses...
This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This inter...
This chapter provides an overview of a few real-life examples of inclusive urban development. It begins with a short introduction to various global rankings of inclusive cities, which show that especially liberal and progressive cities in Europe perform well in this regard. This is followed by descriptions of four cities, of which Helsinki and Barc...
The concluding chapter offers a recapitulation of the key insights generated in this volume. It highlights the positive role of economic inclusion in urban development. It is manifest in co-created and shared prosperity, which relies on resources, talent, and connections owned by various groups and individuals in the city. In short, economic inclus...
The concepts “social inclusion” and “economic inclusion” can best be understood by examining the meaning and connotations of their opposite category, exclusion. Chapter 3 starts with outlining the reasons why people are historically excluded from various assets and services, which puts into a new light the widely cherished modern claim that social...
Building the inclusive city calls for collaborative and synergistic creation of shared prosperity, which in turn is deemed to require efforts of all segments of the urban population. Sufficient governance arrangements must allow for this. Local government is only one player in this complex setting. Chapter 6 pinpoints and positions various types of...
Before inclusive urban development can be truly implemented as a policy direction by local governments, a number of preconditions have to be met. One of them is a constructive handling of the tensions as they emerge between groups that have divergent identities. As people have various memberships in groups that form a part of an individual’s multid...
From the 1980s on, a techno-economic paradigm for urban development has encouraged local governments to promote policy agendas that reflect the idea of neoliberal city. This approach has been popular until the 2010s. More recently, however, it has faced growing criticism for contributing to widening divide between haves and have-nots. A thorough an...
In order to operationalize economic inclusion in cities, Chap. 4 describes four aspects in exclusion that need to be mapped in specific circumstances. First, exclusion ground—for example, age, ability, religion, race, gender, income, and location—indicates the explicit or implicit criterion for exclusion. Second, types of capital, including human,...
Transport infrastructure is crucial in facilitating the development of cities and shapes the urban landscape, which in turn has implications on resource supply, environmental impact and social network connection in cities. People rely on their cars, bicycles or the public transport such as trains, metros, buses to get to work, to meet friends and t...
While many national and local governments in the world are placing their bets on smart city development in countering challenges such as climate change, air pollution, and congestion, few know exactly how to develop them in practice. A high and rising number of publications has appeared addressing the concept of "smart city," but not many address i...