Citizen engagement body of knowledge – A fuzzy decision maker for index-term selection in built environment projects

Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 103137
Author(s):  
Farzaneh Zarei ◽  
Mazdak Nik-Bakht
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Fuzzy Decision ◽  
Term Selection ◽  
Index Term ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

scholarly journals Citizen Engagement for Co-Creating Low Carbon Smart Cities: Practical Lessons from Nottingham City Council in the UK

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 6615
Author(s):  
Sam Preston ◽  
Muhammad Usman Mazhar ◽  
Richard Bull
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Council ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
City Development ◽  
The Uk

Cities constitute three quarters of global energy consumption and the built environment is responsible for significant use of final energy (62%) and greenhouse gas emissions (55%). Energy has now become a strategic issue for local authorities (LAs) and can offer savings when budget cuts have threatened the provision of core services. Progressive LAs are exploring energy savings and carbon reduction opportunities as part of the sustainable and smart city agenda. This paper explores the role of citizens in smart city development as “buildings don’t use energy: people do”. Citizens have the potential to shape transitions towards smart and sustainable futures. This paper contributes to the growing evidence base of citizen engagement in low carbon smart cities by presenting novel insights and practical lessons on how citizen engagement can help in smart city development through co-creation with a focus on energy in the built environment. A case study of Nottingham in the UK, a leading smart city, is analysed using Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation. Nottingham City Council (NCC) has pledged to keep “citizens at the heart” of its plans. This paper discusses learnings from two EU funded Horizon 2020 projects, REMOURBAN (REgeneration MOdel for accelerating the smart URBAN transformation) and eTEACHER, both of which aimed to empower citizens to reduce energy consumption and co-create smart solutions. Although these two projects are diverse in approaches and contexts, what unites them is a focus on citizen engagement, both face to face and digital. REMOURBAN has seen a “whole house” approach to retrofit in vulnerable communities to improve liveability through energy efficiency. User interaction and co-creation in eTEACHER has provided specifications for technical design of an energy saving App for buildings. eTEACHER findings reflect users’ energy needs, understanding of control interfaces, motivations for change and own creative ideas. Citizens were made co-creators in eTEACHER from the beginning through regular communication. In REMOURBAN, citizens had a role in the procurement and bidding process to influence retrofit project proposals. Findings can help LAs to engage demographically diverse citizens across a variety of buildings and communities for low carbon smart city development.

Survival strategies of built environment organisations in a challenging economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 861-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Omoregie Aghimien ◽  
Emmanuel Imuetiyan Aghimien ◽  
Akinlolu Oyebobola Fadiyimu ◽  
Taiwo Fadeke Adegbembo
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
The Body ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Survey Approach ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Purpose The economic downturn in Nigeria calls for the need to appraise the survival strategies being adopted by organisations within the built environment, as it plays a major role in the development of every nation. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to appraise the survival strategies of organisations within the built environment, with a view to showcasing these strategies to ensure continuous survival of organisations within the industry. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a survey approach, and construction professionals across the six geo-political zones of the country were sampled using structured questionnaire. Data gathered were analysed using percentage, Kruskal–Wallis H-test and factor analysis. Findings The study revealed that organisation- and workforce management-related strategies are the most adopted survival strategies in the country, as they have the highest factor loading and accounts for about 37 per cent of the total extracted factors. This is followed by the adoption of strategies relating to organisation’s innovation, diversification, financial management and organisation’s networking, the combination of which accounts for 27.5 per cent of all extracted factors. Research limitations/implications Findings of this study imply that although organisations within the built environment see the need for effective management of their organisation and workforce in a bid to survive in the harsh economic situation of the country, more need to be done as regards the other identified survival strategies, as they can help ensure the survival of these organisations. Originality/value This study contributes to the body of knowledge as it showcases the survival strategies being adopted by the different organisations within the built environment in the challenging Nigerian economy, as against the usual common practice of studying specific organisations within the industry.

A Hierarchical Fuzzy Decision Maker for the Weapon Target Assignment

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 8993-8998 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Alper ŞAHIN ◽  
Kemal LEBLEBİCİOĞLU
Keyword(s):  
Decision Maker ◽  
Fuzzy Decision ◽  
Target Assignment

Participatory Urban Development in India: A Tale of Two Townships

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
Ansari Salamah
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Critical Understanding

This paper intends to offer a critical understanding of citizen engagement in the process of city making using two case studies within the Indian context, namely, Magarpatta City in Maharashtra and Auroville in Tamil Nadu. As an initial foray into the issue, it engages with contemporary discourses on the scope and nature of public participation in urban development within the framework of a neoliberal economy. This is followed by a qualitative analysis based on unstructured interviews, which capture the live experiences of the local landowners and residents in each location. The findings indicate that citizen engagement is instrumental in producing socially equitable urbanization. If harnessed well, it offers the possibility for an effective departure from the traditional state-market dynamics, which presently underlie forms of neoliberal urbanism in developing countries. This paper, therefore, makes the case for mainstreaming citizen participation for urban development as an attempt to create a sustainable built environment that caters to the needs of citizens.

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