scholarly journals The Transformative Power of Social Innovation in Urban Planning and Local Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torill Nyseth ◽  
Abdelillah Hamdouch
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Urban Problems

This issue discusses the concept of social innovation (SI) as a potentially transformative factor in urban planning and local development. SI represents an alternative to economic and technology-oriented approaches to urban development, such as that of ‘smart cities’, ‘creative cities’, etc. This is thanks to the emphasis SI puts on human agency and the empowerment of local communities and citizens to be actively involved in transforming their urban environments. Urban planning could benefit greatly from devoting more attention to SI when addressing the diverse urban problems of today, such as social exclusion, urban segregation, citizen participation and integration, or environmental protection, many of them addressed in the articles gathered in this volume.

Analyzing Citizen Participation and Engagement in European Smart Cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931987747 ◽  
Author(s):  
María E. Cortés-Cediel ◽  
Iván Cantador ◽  
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Public Value

With the advent of smart cities (SCs), governance has been placed at the core of the debate on how to create public value and achieve a high quality of life in urban environments. In particular, given that public value is rooted in democratic theory and new technologies that promote networking spaces have emerged, citizen participation represents one of the principal instruments to make government open and close to the citizenry needs. Participation in urban governance has undergone a great development: from the first postmodernist ideals of countering expert dominance to today’s focus on learning and social innovation, where citizen participation is conceptualized as co-creation and co-production. Despite this development, there is a lack of research to know how this new governance context is taking place in the SC arena. Addressing this situation, in this article, we present an exhaustive survey of the research literature and a deep study of the experience in participative initiatives followed by SCs in Europe. Through an analysis of 149 SC initiatives from 76 European cities, we provide interesting insights about how participatory models have been introduced in the different areas and dimensions of the cities, how citizen engagement is promoted in SC initiatives, and whether the so-called creative SCs are those with a higher number of projects governed in a participatory way.

Need for Rethinking Modern Urban Planning Strategies Through Integration of ICTs

2018 ◽  
pp. 7843-7855
Author(s):  
Rounaq Basu ◽  
Arnab Jana
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Geocoded Data ◽  
Modern Technologies

Recent progresses in ICTs have paved the way for innovative services, and interactive models and tools. Citizen participation and open innovation have become essential tools for urban planners. These concepts can be implemented through the crowdsourcing model, which is a people-centric approach to solve societal problems using Web 2.0 technologies. This has led to the collection and sharing of geocoded data through GIS. The large amount of data required is one of the drawbacks of GIS. However, collecting such data within short durations at minimum cost has now become possible through development of web-based surveys coupled with use of DBMS. The effectiveness and importance of these three tools (Crowdsourcing, GIS, and DBMS) in modern and future urban planning strategies cannot be undermined. In conclusion, the authors argue that integration of urban policies, modern technologies and fundamental concepts of engineering will lead to discovery of new solutions to important age-old urban problems.

Need for Rethinking Modern Urban Planning Strategies Through Integration of ICTs

2019 ◽  
pp. 577-590
Author(s):  
Rounaq Basu ◽  
Arnab Jana
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Geocoded Data ◽  
Modern Technologies

Recent progress in ICTs have paved the way for innovative services and interactive models and tools. Citizen participation and open innovation have become essential tools for urban planners. These concepts can be implemented through the crowdsourcing model, which is a people-centric approach to solve societal problems using Web 2.0 technologies. This has led to the collection and sharing of geocoded data through GIS. The large amount of data required is one of the drawbacks of GIS. However, collecting such data within short duration at minimum cost has now become possible through the development of web-based surveys coupled with use of DBMS. The effectiveness and importance of these three tools (crowdsourcing, GIS, and DBMS) in modern and future urban planning strategies cannot be undermined. In conclusion, the authors argue that integration of urban policies, modern technologies, and fundamental concepts of engineering will lead to discovery of new solutions to important age-old urban problems.

scholarly journals Innovative Forms of Citizen Participation at the Fringe of the Formal Planning System

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torill Nyseth ◽  
Torill Ringholm ◽  
Annika Agger
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Innovation Planning

In the Nordic countries, we are witnessing a proliferation of novel and more experimental ways of citizen and authority interaction within the field of urban planning and governance. These formats are seen in urban regeneration projects and planning experiments that endorse more inclusive interactions between public authorities and local actors than in the traditional formal hearings. The intention of this article is to explore the potential of these forms of participation in contributing to social innovation particularly related to including citizens that are difficult to reach, and in creating new arenas for interaction and collaboration. Theoretically, the article is inspired by the concepts of social innovation, planning as experimentation (Hillier, 2007; Nyseth, Pløger, & Holm, 2010), and co-creation (Voorberg, Bekkers, & Tummers, 2013). Empirically, the article draws on three different cases from Norway and Denmark which entailed some novel ways of involving local citizens in urban planning. Finally, the article discusses how formal planning procedures can gain inspiration from such initiatives.

Unexpected consequences in the operation of urban environments

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Pérez-delHoyo ◽  
María Dolores Andújar-Montoya ◽  
Higinio Mora ◽  
Virgilio Gilart-Iglesias
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Unexpected Consequences

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the unexpected consequences in the operation of urban environments. Prediction within the urban planning process often presents difficulties and unintended consequences. It is not enough to develop a good project. Unexpected consequences are possible because of the environment. The authors argue that these problems of uncertainty can be minimized with citizen participation and the use of new technologies. Design/methodology/approach The problem of how urban planning initiatives result in unexpected consequences is described. These effects are determined by studying a series of cities and real urban environments. A case study on urban accessibility is developed for a better understanding of the problem. Findings Avoiding unexpected consequences in the operation of urban environments is strongly linked to the concept of Smart City 3.0. This concept is based on the co-creation. In this line to address the problem, a citizen-centric methodology using the latest information and communications technologies and internet of things technologies is presented. As a practical application, different categories of unexpected events related to the Faculty of Education building at the University of Alicante have been identified as a consequence of the impact of its environment. An uncomfortable or non-accessible environment causes unforeseen behaviour of individuals. Originality/value There are no analytical tools to investigate how aspects of the urban environment cause uncertainty about the acceptance of projects by future citizen users. This work takes a step forward in that direction.

scholarly journals When Design Fiction Meets Geospatial Sciences to Create a More Inclusive Smart City

Smart Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1334-1352
Author(s):  
Andrée-Anne Blacutt ◽  
Stéphane Roche
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Spatial Skills ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The People ◽  
Design Fiction

Smart cities are especially suited for improving urban inclusion by combining digital transition and social innovation. To be smart, a city has to provide every citizen with urban spaces, public services, and common goods that are effectively affordable, whatever the citizen’s gender, culture, origin, race, or impairment. Based on two design workshops, the “Vibropod” and the “Pointe-aux-Lièvres”, this paper aims at highlighting the contributions of design fiction to the improvement of the spatial capability of hearing impaired people. This research draws its originality from both its conceptual framework, built on an interdisciplinary and intersectoral composition of arts and sciences, and its operational approach, based on the use of the DeafSpace markers and the TRIZ theory (Russian acronym for Inventive Problem Solving Theory) principles. The two design fiction workshops demonstrate that considering the singularity of the human being as an actual acoustic material constitutes an innovative opportunity to improve the role of universal design in a smart city project. By reversing the classic posture, and defining disability by looking at characteristics of the environment rather than as limits of the people themselves (their bodies or their senses), this research proposes an innovative way of addressing smart city inclusivity issues. This paper shows how increasing spatial enablement and having better control of spatial skills can offer deaf people new skills to improve the use of technology in support of urban mobility, as well as give them tools for feeling safer in urban environments.

The Nostalgianomics and Living Preference in Slovakia

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 873-895
Author(s):  
Mária Murray Svidroňová ◽  
David Cole ◽  
Jolana Gubalová
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Creative Force ◽  
Urban Problems

The paper is focused on town planning from different point of view thancurrent urban and economic development which stresses the need of building metropolises and smart cities as a cure for urban problems. The paper is a counter-balance to this statement, especially in the conditions of Slovakia. The objective of this paper is to analyse living preferences of 496 respondents and to discuss a new term of nostalgianomics. Nostalgianomics explains that nostalgic sentiment can be used as an economic and creative force, as an incentive for investment, housing and urban planning. Main conclusion proves this statement, most respondents chose a place to live that is less crowded and less urban. 

scholarly journals Contemporary urban planning: the importance and consequences of citizen participation in the processes and decisions about urban space

2018 ◽  
pp. 699-712
Author(s):  
Andréa Quadrado Mussi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Urban Dynamic ◽  
And Behavior

This paper contemplates on the importance of empowering local communities to develop urban interventions. One example of such importance is observed on the revitalization of a square of Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil, conducted through a public/private partnership. A survey of user satisfaction and behavior presents the appropriation of the square. Planning, design and urban management actions performed throughout a period of eight years boosted crucial changes in the neighborhood urban dynamic.

Sustainable tourism planning in Bahía Solano, Colombia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Gabriela Antošová ◽  
Ivan Dario Medina Rojas ◽  
Mauricio Peralta Mejía ◽  
Helmuth Yesid Arias Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Tourism Planning ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Marine Area ◽  
Bird Watching ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Water Sports

AbstractThe municipality of Bahía Solano possesses important tourist attractions. The majority of them consist of natural wonders such as whale, dolphin and bird watching. Its marine area offers diving courses, all types of fishing, surfing, other water sports etc. The enormous amount of natural wealth stands in contrast to the lack of local development and the high rate of poverty among its inhabitants. Bahía Solano has enviable tourist professions but a low level of competition. This research proposes a methodology of social innovation, elaborated by researchers, that involves nature, communities and tour operators, where a connection of surveys with the expectations and perceptions of the different entities (inhabitants, tourists, and tour operators) has been obtained.

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