A Better Life:The Practical Logic of Urban Digital Governance——Based on the Experience in Chengdu
Urban governance is progressively evolving towards intelligence,digitization and smartness,while concurrently integrating new concepts like green,livable,and inclusive.Although previous studies have delved into the connotation,characteristics,and pathways to a better life,they have relatively over-looked the life dimension of digital governance and seldom concentrated on a better life during the transfor-mation process of urban digital governance.This research proposes a logical framework for a better life within urban digital governance,aiming to unveil the complex mechanisms involved in this transformation.The urban digital governance initiative is interwoven into the micro-life of residents,enhancing communal living modes and life experiences by influencing individual residents,embodying the"a better life"concept of urban governance.The most notable characteristic of Chengdu digital governance transformation is its ori-entation towards daily life.Building on this assertion,the study delineates and articulates the logic of a bet-ter life in the context of urban digital governance.The study reveals that Chengdu incrementally fosters the realization of a better life through five mechanisms:facilitating the transformation of citizens'lifestyles to-wards high-quality livability via policy design,enhancing residents'happiness and beautiful life through-out the entire chain via digital empowerment,improving residents'happiness in all domains through co-construction,co-governance,and co-sharing,elevating life satisfaction in the full cycle through service enhancement,and augmenting the comprehensive happiness and beauty of life through support and promo-tion.The digital governance of cities signifies a holistic transformation of residents'lifestyles,actualizing a better life through the fusion of technology and society,thus advancing the nation's modernization.This study probes a new paradigm of urban life governance with Chinese characteristics and contemporary rele-vance,broadens the scope of lifestyle considerations in urban governance,and offers significant insights for governments to ameliorate the high-quality lifestyle of Chinese residents.
urban Chinadigital governancea better lifehigh quality life
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