A formulação de políticas públicas e sua limitação operacional: a construção da agenda de cidades inteligentes de Natal-RN

Abstract

The research work intends to analyze the construction of public policies from the assumption of smart cities, under the focus of the urban and environmental field, in the formulation of the agenda, in the city of Natal, identifying its operational limitations, using science and technology and innovation to study its evolutionary process at the local level. This municipal public policy paradigm seeks to achieve the ideals of smart cities (with the assumption of its pillars) in promoting sustainable development and the elimination of regional inequalities, delimiting a better quality of life for the citizens of the city of Natal-RN. In this way, it is proposed to carry out an analysis of science, technology and innovation, as fields of study, which gained strong momentum over the decades, constituting a strong field of research with many ramifications and specializations, through urban planning. As a research problem, operational limitations are identified for the elaboration of the smart cities agenda for Natal/RN, which results in innovation in urban planning, with the use of new technologies to satisfy social needs such as housing, sanitation, mobility, inclusion, etc. The objective is to analyze evolutionary aspects of innovation, science and technology processes, with a view to smart cities, promoting sustainable development and solidifying public policies. The present work intends to explain the process of materializing smart cities in Natal-RN The logical method Process Tracing (PT) will be used in bibliographical and documental research. Through the phenomenological method, the objective is to make considerations about the phenomenon of the more inclusive city, whose purpose is to improve the quality of the citizens' habitat.