Construction of Smart City Needed for a Better Life Under the Background of the Times—A Perspective of Holistic Governance Theory Based on Governance and the Structure of Local Political Institutions

Abstract

What we face now is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life. Technology changes life. Smart cities have a important theoretical significance and practical value in meeting and satisfying people’s needs for a better life, improving the sense of gain, happiness and security. In view of this, the article harnesses the methods of literature, logic analysis, and field-participatory observation to follow the main line of “what, why, and what”, and uses Perry Hicks’s theory of overall governance as a theoretical tool. It is proposed that smart cities are oriented to meet people’s differentiated needs, with responsibility, information and technology as the core elements, and integration and coordination as the operating path as the background, and proposed that the SMART city construction should be in the analysis of the city PEST and SWOT, following the concept of SMART law. they followed the concept of the SMART rule in order to provide reproducible and generalizable theoretical experience and operation mode for the construction of smart cities.