The Study of City Functional System and Cross-cutting Trajectories in Transition to the Smart and Creative Tourism City in Phuket Province, Thailand
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Cities are marked by uncertain and turbulent socioeconomic environments, complex social-ecological systems, and the co-evolution of human-society activities. Simultaneously, with the growing debate on the notions of an essential role of real-world Urban Living Labs (ULLs) studies to make the knowledge of co-creation for social change. This research showed a way to combine two fields of system science (SS) that look at how cities work and how they might change in the future as they become smarter and more creative tourist destinations that use ecological services (ES) better. Three different participatory systemic foresight exercises are designed with detailed application to the Phuket province as a research case study. Along with 30 key participants in the field study, the study analyzed data that included both scientific and normative data to find change agents, build the city's functional system, and come up with the main themes that support plausible sustainable futures for cities today.
The results revealed the key forces of change in the macro-environment that might shape city development profiles. These forces of change underscore their potential impact on the urban realm and the likelihood of urban development occurring. By conceptualizing the city’s functional system, the results demonstrate the urban side system and supply viewpoints that city planners need to consider as the city's main system develops, including societal demand subsystems, economic agents, the political system, and the environmental system. These subsystems also provide necessities and infrastructure for ES functions and services, ensuring adequate and desirable living and working conditions.
Finally, we construct a process to deliver valuable knowledge co-creation pattern capacities for the city’s co-development, and co-users would be employed as the city's sustainable tourist managerial approaches, which would apply in further learning schemes and in the transition to various cities’ system characteristics and sustainable dimensions. Future research should incorporate causal loop structural system modeling to clarify the empirical data characteristics of city functional systems and cross-cutting theme trajectories, thereby creating effective sustainable city visions and choices for management development.
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